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Golden light and a magic saddle
Golden light and a magic saddle
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Challenge: Earliest Memory (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
Location: home studio
Date: Feb 3, 2008
Aperture: auto
ISO: auto
Shutter: auto
Galleries: Animals, Studio
Date Uploaded: Feb 3, 2008

 I wasn't even going to enter this challenge, but then I noticed my cats had pushed this horse around as though repositioning it, so I took it upstairs.

First shot done in my home studio where, perhaps luckily, I haven't yet changed the colours of the walls! The horse is an old spring-horse that I found by the side of the road. Light are 60w, one with a diffuser on it, the other clamped to the edge of the door and shining down.

pp: curves, lasso, contrast/brightness, clone and healing tools to remove shadows and dirt, saturation/lightness, warming filter, resize, usm, sharpen edges, save for web

Statistics
Place: 65 out of 83
Avg (all users): 4.9939
Avg (commenters): 5.3333
Avg (participants): 4.7451
Avg (non-participants): 5.1053
Views since voting: 1018
Views during voting: 255
Votes: 165
Comments: 5
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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/11/2008 09:15:28 AM
I can't believe this scored under 5. I admit I'm not crazy about shots of things, but as thing-shots go, this is a good one. The composition has some energy, one can imagine the horse actually running into the frame. The lighting is warm and three-dimensional. There is a glow of child-worship about it.

Uh-oh, I just convinced myself that I underrated this picture, too.
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Sony Alpha a6000
Sony E 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ OSS
 02/11/2008 05:15:17 AM
Nice warm colors. I think it would have scored better if the whole horse would have been in it. Just my 2cents.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Panasonic Lumix DMC GH3
Panasonic Lumix G VARIO 12-35mm F2.8 ASPH Mega O.I.S
 02/10/2008 10:05:08 AM
Whites are a little blown out on the horse.
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/07/2008 06:13:06 PM
I love the way you used the colors; even though they are fairly close to each other on the color spectrum they each stand out without one overtaking over the other.
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/05/2008 10:15:21 AM
This would really be set off with a darker background I think.
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