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Saw this lovely horse on the trail yesterday and the rider was kind enough to let me take a few pictures. I only had my 24-105 so I had to get quite close to the horse. Although only 3 years old, she was very patient and gentle.
Layers of Topaz Simplify 4, desaturate II; Topaz Lens effect, pin hole; PS filter gallery crosshatch; fractalius.
Nancy this is a very unique way of PP for an equine eye portrait.... as a horse person I will tell you we are very obsessed with these types of shots. I think everyone with a horse tries to get great up close eye shots.... windows to the soul.
I love your PP on this and you got the eye great, blue eyes are extremely hard.
The brightness of the metal buckles in FG on left, are a bit bright for me and I would darken them so that all the focus goes straight to the eye.
I hope you got the owners information as if this was my horse, I would buy this from you. Really great shot!!!
A very contemplative look and nice use of the filter -- it gives a distinctly horse-hide look to, well.... horse hide. Well done!
Very creative processing, and very effective! And a nice composition also. I agree about toning down the highlight in the bridle.
I can see why you were drawn to this. There's something very compelling about a blue eye on a horse. The processing is very effective for the subject, too.
The buckle threw me for a loop (pun intended), at first. Two things were probably happening. One was the visual distraction that's already been mentioned. The other was that it took me a moment to realize it came from the hardware on a bridle. I don't know if it would work, or not, but I'd be tempted to partially mask at least one of the processing layers to make the bridle more readable.
Thanks everyone! I was a little surprised about the reaction to the buckle on the bridle. My intention was for the buckle brightness to balance the huge white patch of the horse's face on the right side. But that did not come across so I will play with it. Thanks for the feedback.
I like the semi-abstract nature of this image. Overall, it doesn't work for me--too many distracting colors and elements. What about cropping just the eye and lovely hairs surrounding it?
My idea is something along these lines.
Anita, thanks for another idea. I do like the emphasis on the blue eye and the eyelashes.
