Definately a sense of motion in the horse. I think part of the issue with the shot is that the buggy is actually quite sharp, especially compared to the horse. I guess this is because they're turning a corner, so I think you get what Alistair said, '...a lot of tension...'
I like how you put the background into BW to draw attention to the horse and buggy. Your colors seem off - the horse seems orange in certain spots. Would like the horse a bit more in focus too.
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03-Feb-2010 14:57
They seem to be following an old indian trail, look at the arrows!
I am going to go to town on you here Steph, but you know I only mean well by it> I guess there are distracting elements to the left, so you cropped really tight there, but below and above and right seems very tight, the whole frame just seems very busy. There is a lot of tension in the frame too, highlighted by the very aggressive highlight recovery ion the horses legs, post-realistic.. With a shot like this, where the subject is a pretty intense object and it is against a very busy background it can be a good idea to desaturate the background and leave the subject in color. Horse, buddy, passengers in color, the rest, BW... even with the heavy processing as it is on the horse, that would work by creating a lot of separation and depth between it and the background... There you go, my longest ever post on a PBase image :-) hugs, Alister
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