That's our chubby Arabian that needs some exercise - dang!
I had given him some grain and took a walk to the pond looking for anything interesting to shoot (with the camera). On the way back I noticed the late day sun hitting the front of his stall. Knowing his habit of grabbing a mouthful of grain and coming back out front I readied myself for a shot or two. I had forgotten about that smiley painted on the wall. Thought it might be fun to get that in the photo too so I moved right to center the horse in the doorframe and still get the smiley.
Don't know how it will do for "Grunge", but what the heck. :-)
Sony RAW converted in Sony IDC software - converted to TIFF with no adjustments.
PSP X2
- rotate left (I think it was .35)
- crop
- clarify +20 (twice)
- curves (pull down highlights)
- HSL (reduce red saturation)
- HMS (pull down highlights)
- darken edges
- resize
- sharpen
- resize
- duplicate layer
- sepia tone, layer to multiply mode, 16% opacity
- merge all
- auto levels
- duplicate layer
- salt & pepper (noise reduction)
- erase thru top layer to selectively bring back detail lost with s&p.
- merge all
- usm (.25,100,10) +luminance (twice)
- usm (.35,100,10) +luminance
- borders
- save as jpg
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gorgeous .. :)
one of my favs of Westwind ..
although I have a few ..
have you printed any of your photos of him .. this would look awesome hanging in your house .. what I particularly love is he's looking right at you and those ears .. they're happy ears ... :)
This is adorable!! I apparently didn't vote this challenge. Great catch with the matching smiles! (And vertical shots are not a problem for the watermarks at all - I can scroll so that the very bottom of the photograph is not seen - perfect!)
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