Things are heating up in here, me likes...!
Ok, where to begin mh. Thanks csmoore for thinking this is actually a good shot, as I believe it to be my best shot so far. And I've been around horses, rode horses, handled studs, been stepped on (not bitten because the horses here are well and gently trained and won't do that to a human) and observed the horses as a herd for a very ample amount of time. I am too of the idea that this picture would work in black and white, actually never thought of it I'm going to process it and see how that looks like
I love the fact that when I shot this picture I had all the settings gone wrong on my camera and this was the result, because I kind of like to shoot at random and make a lot of mistakes so that I can be surprised, rather than letting the brain in my K-5 judge... as wisely as a computer can.
Still, I have to agree with Britt that the tail of the depicted buckskin mustang is indeed weak, that the gait is strange and that the horse is not filling the whole picture.
BUT... what I really like about this picture is the snow the horse is running on is burned by the overexposure and there is an almost supernatural minimalist look to this shot. The horse in this pictures gives scale to the background, I don't think the horse is the subject the subject is the background and the horse scales it (differently from your truly outstanding horse pictures in which the horse potrayed seems to come out of the picture itself).
But I'm a noob. Very passionate about my photography, but still a noob.
Thanks for the comments! This is fun!
Richard
Last edited by R.W.G.; 02-26-2013 at 08:43 PM.