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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6D ED
Location: Canada
Date: Feb 25, 2007
Aperture: f 4.7
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2007

 My first attempt at using a Dslr, borrowed a Nikon D50 from the school and had a load of fun with it. I am absolutely blown away at the quality of the images, and embarrassed at my previous shots in comparaison. My boyfriend's family pulled off the road so I could take photos of these horses while we were driving home. Taken from a fair distance away from the car window 250 mm. I love this camera, when I have to buy one for school I might look into a Nikon. Hopefully voters will have their monitors calibrated or else they'll lose the detail on the left side.

Editing: adjusted levels, cropped, upped the saturation, sharpened, dodged/burned in some details, and cropped a stray piece of grass that was a bit distracting.

I hope this doesn't get slaughtered! I see some trouble up ahead from those that insist the ears be in the shot. The fence cut them off, and the other shot I have with them in isn't nearly as good in my opinion. I'm not sure if they'll like the viewpoint through the fence either. I tried a cropped version without the fence, but this is just more interesting to me.

Statistics
Place: 425 out of 624
Avg (all users): 5.2667
Avg (commenters): 4.0000
Avg (participants): 5.1479
Avg (non-participants): 5.7105
Views since voting: 898
Views during voting: 232
Votes: 180
Comments: 6
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 03/07/2007 04:33:28 PM
deer (or horse) in the headlights look. cropping a little tight.
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Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Olympus 35mm f/3.5 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
 03/02/2007 09:37:21 PM
Good image that could improve IMHO by a tighter crop to get rid of the bottom and left blurs.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a7
Canon FD 70-210mm f/4.0 MF
 03/01/2007 11:54:19 PM
the expression makes you look like you've startled him. ;)
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Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 03/01/2007 05:24:21 AM
I think I would have liked it better if the ears were not cropped off.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D2Xs
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED
 03/01/2007 01:54:09 AM
Nice capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D3
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 03/01/2007 12:46:50 AM
I love the expression and detail in the horse's face, but the shot could've really benefitted from having the blurry gray areas on the left and bottom cropped out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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