Have to say I like this picture although I am not sure if I have done the best I could with it. No crop but a lot of playing with the colour to get the right balance of light and dark (lost the channel mixer in the Gimp), and I did like the weird colour versions I came up with but maybe they were too far out, USM, and I cannot remember if I did the denoising in the Gimp on this one, desaturation, resize, sharpen. There are flies on his face - I might have tried to smudge them but I didn't. My biggest concern is that this is way too pale, lacking in both white and black, but I liked the ghostly (for want of a better word) effect.
This is Max, one of 2 Clydesdales who live somewhere between me and my village. They were in one of their fields seeking shade at lunchtime under a very scrubby stand of willow. I got right up close without stepping in any presents.
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I've always loved this, Timothy. It was one of the first images I favourited, and I've just discovered to my surprise, that I never left a comment on it.
I really love the shadows on the horse. But with advanced editing I would have blurred the background foliage. There's a lot of details in those areas that compete with the beauty of the animal.
Wow, by the comments, this is a "like it- don't like it" kind of image, no middle ground. I'm in the like it pile. Just a little more head on would have helped a lot with getting a better score I would think, but with animals we get only what they, the animals, will offer us.
Beautiful and subtle play of greys and light, looks like a charcoal drawing. This is why I try to go through shots at least twice when voting ... put this in the six bucket originally, now back for a second look to bump you to an 8, and I may be back again. Ah heck, make it a 10. Don't see how dappled light gets much better than this. Good luck!
Contrast seems really low and the whole image appears both soft and oversharpened at the same time. I think you were possibly trying to achieve a dreamlike effect and it came close, but I'm afraid it quite doesn't work for me.
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