A student of mine, Tori, and her rather overweight but very good-natured Canadian/mustang gelding, Twilight. They're on their way up to the ring for a lesson, and as I had to put a new throatlatch on the bridle, he is only wearing his halter. I got Tori to stop him and give him a treat he is unfamiliar with, which elicited the flehmen response...aka 'smile', which in turn made Tori laugh and gave me a bunch of great pix. Shot during Golden Hour.
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Place: 15 out of 67 Avg (all users): 6.0562 Avg (commenters): 7.0000 Avg (participants): 6.0556 Avg (non-participants): 6.0563 Views since voting: 2255 Views during voting: 416 Votes: 249 Comments: 14 Favorites: 0
First Impressions I like the action, but overall the snapshottish feel dominated the photograph more than the moment captured, in my opinion. I gave this a 4 during voting.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review With the image as is, I wonder whether a much tighter crop on the left and bringing their faces into the frame/dominating more may have given this more of an edge. Because some of the colors in the fabrics contribute toward a slight busy feel for this image, perhaps a toning/b&w may have complemented this image. Fairly minor, but looks like it needs a whisker straightening and/or perspective correction.
Would like to have seen sharper focus on the horse.
Comments, Score & Placement Review 15th is good placing, and 6.05 a nice score. An average of 7.0 from your many commenters reflects their sentiments - they all liked the humor in this image.
Summary As mentioned above, eliminating some of the distractions to allow the 'interaction' to dominate more, make this better in my opinion.
I elected to use a rating table to decide on what value to assign during voting.
Here’s the table:
1 No Animal/People Interaction
2 Slightly Appealing, but no Animal/People Interaction
3 Moderately Appealing, but on Animal/People Interaction
4 Greatly Appealing, but no Animal/People interaction
5 Not Appealing, but possessing Animal/People Interaction
6 Slightly Appealing and possessing Animal/People Interaction
7 Moderately Appealing and possessing Animal/People Interaction
8 Greatly Appealing and possessing Animal People Interaction
9 Better than #8, and caused an audible sigh
10 Better than #9, and would likely declare it a favorite
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