Equine detail - eye study

Canon 20D w/ 70-200mm f/4 non-IS


Aperture priority, f/5.6 1/800 ISO 200 focal length: 131mm


This is a Peruvian Paso mare and the way the sun hit her amber eye and flaxen mane caught my attention. Captured in RAW and processed CS3. Despite the relatively shallow DOF, I thought the metal pipe fencing in the background was too distracting, so I used layers to completely blacken the background. The image has not been cropped. Thoughts?





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Great composition, It looksinteresting with the fence darkened. Good contrast. My only wish is that you could tell it was a horse more easily. I think most people would guess it is, but you need to look at it for a while to figure it out.


Thanks,


Tom