A Horse in HIS Field.

Wonderful!

Best composition! A Powerful (good perspective) horse separated from viewer by the thinest barbed wire, a poetic statement...His sustenance is in the backround, yet the viewer has captured his curiousity. The eye rolls around (left arc and down sloping top rail) encompassing the big sky - his roof..well done! Warm highlighting might help define temporal information and enrichen this lovely portrait?

I saw this horse while driving over to a friends house, we stopped to take the picture. I have a tendency to place my subject dead center in most compositions, so I cropped it. I think the composition works MUCH better now. What do you think? Any other comments/critiques welcome. Thanks for your feedback. (I welcome constructive criticism on ALL my pictures... it's the whole reason I've posted them :) )

This is one of the best pictures of a horse I've ever seen. The composition is superb. I'm tempted to try crop out a bit on the right side, but I'm not sure this "improvement" would hold up after a night's sleep.

The sky seems very slightly too green to my eye, but I'm looking at this on a monitor that has *not* been carefully calibrated. I also find myself wishing the barbed wire was sharper / clearer. But I'm nit-picking. Great shot.

I would be hard pressed to tell you why, but without the little yellow flowers, I don't think this picture would be nearly as good.

The other picture of this horse in the same folder is nice, but this is in a completely different league.

Congratulations.

John

Thanks John, the green tinge to the sky and the orange and yello along the horizon... unfortunately is real... It's near enough to a big city, that it's polution. Who's to say tho, that the color can't be "fixed" to our liking? :D -- Again thanks for the comment.

I think the flowers make it work because they carry on the dappled pattern on the horse. (The pale yellow also contrasts with the pale blue sky.) The fact that the horse is tilting his head into the frame is good as well. Even the fact that the roof is entirely below the line of the wire is better than if it were split. I think the horizontal lines of the wire carry those of the horizon up into what would otherwise be too much empty space in the upper right. Even now, the upper right is a bit "open" for my tastes though. Too bad there isn't a cloud or tree limb or something there to balance things a bit. It probably wouldn't need it if the top wire were up to the top third of the frame instead of pretty much in the middle. There are lots of little things in the image though that "work". Overall, I like it.

 

 

 

I like it! The fence and the structure in the background give it a real feel of being a working farm and not a photo set.

Christopher, this is a photo I could have on my wall and look at for a long time, and not grow tired of. It is very beautiful and emotional.

 

Because I just completed a posting of a photo of mine with a "tall and short" element

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=968906

 

I have an opinion about the composition. The horse is beautiful and the yellow flowers are important, but what makes the composition work is the low building in the background. It acts as the foil, or the contrast, to help create the impression of the tall and dominating horse. That, along with the angle you took the photo at, makes all the difference.

 

Great photo...thanks for sharing it.

Excellent use of wide angle. Composition is dead on. Have you tried the same pic in B&W?

I really have nothing more to say about this excellent image than it deserves the highest marks. Bravo.