Kickin' Up Dust...

[Laramie]

fixing...

[FlyingPhotog]

Hmmmm....Scripting Error

[Laramie]

Can you see me now? :)

[Bill Boehme]

Perhaps a corrupted file during upload? It has a strange file type -- ".pl". I renamed it expman.jpg and then edited it to try to see some detail. There is a lot of the scene that is badly blocked up, but increasing the exposure and brightness did show that there are some other horses in the background besides the ones kicking up dust. Don't know if it is a corrupted file, but it seems to not be what you intended. There is too much area that is featureless because it is so dark.

[Laramie]

Let me try something different. Not sure how it looks on your monitor.

[TekHouse]

I'm seeing nothing..?

[Bill Boehme]

I don't know if this helps, but essentially all of the foreground image and everything except for the sky has an RGB value between 000000 and 141414 (Hex values) or in decimal terms the red, green, and blue values are all in the range of 0 and 20. Maybe that was the intention and, if so, I would say that it is too dark.

I think that I figured out the reason for the odd file extension -- the image is linked to your site that is set up to sell the images so the file extension alteration is supposed to prevent the images from being copied.

Don't know if this helps, but this is what it looks like to me. (bottom black and top blue)

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[Laramie]

Seeing the image now on my Macbook, it is a LOT darker than it showed last night on my Samsung LCD. Guess it was a matter of calibration. I'll take another stab at it. Thanks Bill!

[Bill Boehme]

I can see the silhouettes of the three horses, but essentially no detail. Also, I can tell that there is some dust around their hooves, and barely discern that there is a fence in the background and sort of tell that there are some other horses if I stare really hard. If I had not lightened the image in Photoshop to see some details before examining the original version again, I probably would not have recognized some of the things. So, what I am saying is that while I am able to see some things. they are all very dark and shadowy. I estimate that one or two more stops of exposure in the foreground is needed.