Coming Home (horse show)

This is a girl from the barn I board my horses at. We were riding in a "fun show". I decided to try some of my first creative PP work and I think I like it! CC is definately appreciated, but remember I'm new!

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Here are two others I just PP'd.. check out this handsome guy riding his horse.. lol.. yes, it is me.

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Remember you are new so be gentle?

I would just offer that your first two are definitely underexposed, especially first one. You have lost almost all shadow detail. No doubt due to bright sand in arena. If you shot in raw go back and up the exposure probably about a stop and then apply your PP.

Gentle enough?

Nice captures on the action. I'd brighten up the first two as well. Dark brown/black horses can be really difficult to capture, and virtually always need some sort of post to bring out the detail in them. When you're shooting, it's inevitable that you either overexpose the background or underexpose the dark horse. If given a choice, I always expose for the horse and then fix the background since the horse is the main subject of the picture.

Thanks for the input from both of you.. I think what you are seeing as underexposed is more me going a little overboard with my PP because I was experimenting with the gradient mask/vignetting effect. Here is the original photo of the first one... just cropped and resized as it was straight out of ther camera.

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