CRITIQUE PLS

[rosco1971]

TAKEN WITH D.REBEL 100-300 SIGMA LENS

[gsmx2]

I've been looking at this for three minutes and can't quite put my finger on why it just doesn't effect me. But I'll try.

First off, white horse on white snow is a challenging situation. In this case, the snow seems to draw my eye more than the horse....even though the snow quickly goes out of focus in the background.

Maybe it's the composition. The half-horse frames the blank snow.

Then the horse's head and the background are too similarly colored.

I don't know...that's not much of a critique, but the picture just doesn't work for me.

gsm x2

[solinger]

If you were to crop the legs off of the horse you would have more focus on the horse itself. A little sharpening would help too.

It is not a bad picture though.

[cramski]

I agree, cropping the right side of the pic and the legs, would create more of a portrait type pic. To me I think it would be more appealing because the bokeh is very good around horse's head. My two cents.;)

[Streetshooter]

The biggest single problem is....visually, you have a dark area of the horse that draws the eye out of the frame....mask it off and you'll see the eye travels better....then the other problem is the lines cutting thru the horses head in the background...this with the dark area....doesn't let the eye travel...flow.....it may have worked better if the horse was on the other side of the frame....just try flip flopping it like in a mirrow....don

[rebel61021]

that is a nice shot with good elements in it. Hope you don't mind I played with the picture a little and really like this let me know what you think.

[rosco1971]

thanks for the feed back..........i took the photo back to photoshop and did some cropping.......here it is........

[Don Ellis]

Now try using Highlight Recovery at about 20% and see how you like it.

Cheers... it's a good photo.

Don

[neil_r]

Now try using Highlight Recovery at about 20% and see how you like it.
Where does that tool live Don?

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[Don Ellis]

Where does that tool live Don?

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This is almost live chat, since I just answered another question for you in another thread. :D

Photoshop CS -- Image, Adjustments, Shadow/Highlight.

It's worth the price of the upgrade to CS. You can adjust one or either or both. Although it defaults to 50% Shadow, quite often you'll find as little as 3% will do the trick. And although we talk about how much detail lurks in the shadows, it's amazing how much you can recover from highlights that are not completely blown. (I usually end up using 5-20% for Highlight Recovery.)

Use the tool on the original photo and the snow and horse both come alive with greater detail and depth.

Cheers,

Don