The subject photo was taken at the New Forest Show a few years ago. The immaculate turn-out had two rosettes attached before it left the arena, which was no surprise. The whole thing was most impressive, lady included!
I've used a simple painted background and added three texture layers plus an 'edges' layer. With the usual adjustments, the whole lot comes to just 17 layers. An enjoyable change from my usual compositing style. Please feel free to critique, I do appreciate the help.
The perspective is intriguing, with the wheels leaning inward at the bottom and the horse looking a little odd in its gait. The carriage and woman are beautiful, the whip neatly balances the position of the horse and woman. The background is light, airy and pleasing. I find this work quite mesmerizing, Dave!
Very nice Dave. Love the processing and overall feel of the image.
A beautiful composition, David!
Linda From Maine wrote:
The perspective is intriguing, with the wheels leaning inward at the bottom and the horse looking a little odd in its gait. The carriage and woman are beautiful, the whip neatly balances the position of the horse and woman. The background is light, airy and pleasing. I find this work quite mesmerizing, Dave!
The lean of the wheels is natural to independent suspension, which this carriage does not quite have but nevertheless, the wheel will straighten as the leaf-spring compresses. The horses gait looks ‘natural’ to the arena environment and to me is a ‘trot’ - but we need one of our horsey folk to explain it in proper terms. I suppose it’s ‘dressage’ for traps? It does look splendid whizzing around at a fair pace. I’m pleased you like the background Linda, your description is exactly what I was aiming at. Many thanks.
Beautifully done Dave. I like everything about it but the edge layer. I don't understand what you mean by "texture layers". Could you post one so I can see?
Dave Chinn wrote:
Very nice Dave. Love the processing and overall feel of the image.
Thanks Dave, glad you like it.
Anyone who knows horses will most likely say it's perfect. The wheels are supposed to be like that. It sometimes happens just before they go into the curve at the rail. The whip is moved from side to side to direct the horse into a curve (to the right in this case) causing him to slightly turn his head in that direction.
A little hard to tell because his back feet are so close together but I'd say he may be a three gaited Saddlebred. The whole thing is simply gorgeous!!!
magnetoman wrote:
The subject photo was taken at the New Forest Show a few years ago. The immaculate turn-out had two rosettes attached before it left the arena, which was no surprise. The whole thing was most impressive, lady included!
I've used a simple painted background and added three texture layers plus an 'edges' layer. With the usual adjustments, the whole lot comes to just 17 layers. An enjoyable change from my usual compositing style. Please feel free to critique, I do appreciate the help.
Lovely! Only perhaps a less defined background, perhaps another hue to seperate the top from the bottom. Nice!
Most seem to agree with the background or textured area except for how they appear to me, the round circles (white balls) really draw my attention and I am wondering what they are.
I do like the main subjects and feel you did very well in presenting them.
Pretty spectacular. I find the hard edges layer somewhat in conflict with the softness of the woman, the horse, and all the rest of it. What would you think of curved corners there, or an oval?
I like the overall airiness of the background along with the sharp subject. I am less fond of the sharp edges. The background lightness and airiness seem to ask for softer edges. That said, you’re much more the expert here than I am.
My only negative is that the dark frame confines, perhaps vignetting would be a smoother transition. Then again I am an anti-matt, anti-frame guy. I like the photo all looks so natural and peaceful.
When we look at photos we have first an impression/emotional-response and then we ponder some of the details that puzzle us. Linda said, "The perspective is intriguing, with the wheels leaning inward at the bottom." She would have been more technically correct to say "The perspective is intriguing, with the wheels having a positive Camber the buggy is less stable in turning... or perhaps knowing it was a positive caster she did not want to get too technical. Or perhaps she knew that there was a reason the designers used positive caster.
Alas, while an excellent creative photographer, she and others may perhaps be amiss in the technicalities of wheel alignment... Caster, Camber, and Toe. Here is a quick simple study of the fundamentals.
https://www.powerflexusa.com/alignment-101Joking aside, this photo and my remembering alignment, as Linda suggested, the positive caster is intriguing. The knowledge seeker in me sought an answer and positive camber has a correct buggy design reason.
Thank you, Linda, now I know.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/11ec03k/why_positive_camber_in_horsedrawn_carriages/?rdt=37216
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