Feeding the horses

[Mr Guy]

Original is here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/25476327@N05/2401836716/in/photostream/)


I was playing with some old pictures and gussying them up a bit, now that I've found people willing to look at them, and I'm wondering if I over-cropped this one a bit.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25476327@N05/2401836744/" title="dsc01075_b by mister.guy, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2401836744_c89a8a4d3d.jpg" width="500" height="398" alt="dsc01075_b" /></a>


I also tried to bring up the color a bit with the gimp tonemapping tutorial (http://gimpaddict.googlepages.com/tonemapper.html), but I'm not sure the effect is really noticeable.


Camera: Sony Cybershot
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 7 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Date and Time: 2003:12:26 16:10:58
YCbCr Positioning: Co-Sited
Exposure Program: Normal
Date and Time (Original): 2003:12:26 16:10:58
Date and Time (Digitized): 2003:12:26 16:10:58
Compressed Bits per Pixel: 2 bits
Maximum Lens Aperture: 20/10
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average
Color Space: sRGB
Compression: JPEG
Image Width: 640 pixels
Image Height: 480 pixels

[jiminyClickit]

Mr Guy,

That question may be one only you can answer: if you want viewers to appreciate the horses and young lady as individuals, this is a good crop (a little tight on right side). If you wished to show a "scene" generically, showing all of horses, lady's feet, and more fence might be better.

The right half of this would make a good portrait crop, one horse and lady, who would then be on a good thirds alignment.

[krypticide]

Rule of thirds here. Original crop focuses more on the lady, this crop focuses more on the horses. My personal opinion is that the original crop is better.

I think this picture would work well with contrast bumped up, vibrance up, saturation down a bit, and vignetted. Just a suggestion!

[wannabehorsephotographer]

Cute pic. I would have cropped to lady and one horse or shown full body inclduing feet. I think cropped in to just the lady and horse would make a very nice photo. You are lucky to have caught his ears up - I think horses always look prettier that way. Agree with krypticide on the vignetting - but I'm partial to the technique.
~wannabe

[i_luv_ph0tos]

nice pic... better if you will emphasize the part that you are feeding them (are you?)