Yeah, just a horse. There's always something to be said for entering a competent photo in a challenge - and it seems to me one can always guarantee a score of a low 6. There isn't really a hell of a lot to critique: as I say, a competent shot. The thing I'd consider is the nature photographers maxim that the eye is the natural point of contact with any subject - get that in focus and your shot will be OK, regardless of the rest. I'm not saying that this eye isn't in focus - but what it is is very weakly placed in the composition. I wonder how much difference it would make to re-shoot or crop the image to put it on a stronger line?
My other thought is that tonally this is perhaps a little weak for dpc. Had you included the white blaze this chap(-ess?) seems to have on his/her forehead, you'd achieve the privileging thing with the eye, give us some variation of colouring, and from the look of the left edge of frame perhaps have some deeper shadow to play with too.
Difficult to make a shot like this look original. It has been done so often. What lifts this one is that you have retained the beautiful chestnut - and there is just enough depth of field. The shape of the pupil is beautiful. I would not normally like an eye so close to the centre of the picture - it totally destroys the rule of thirds BUT I have tried cropping this in every way imaginable and not one looked as good as this. I think that proved that rules like that are (at times) made to be broken.
David
I like what you did with the DOF and composition. The crop is tight, but I think for this challenge a slightly more abstract representation of the subject works. Great job. (10)
Interesting angle on a horse. I like how the DOF differentiates between one side and the other. The eyes glows, the coat and bone structure nicely defined. 8
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