The Fix: Which do you like better?
(C) Steve Douglass
It’s a great feeling to open a national magazine and see one of your photos featured inside. But what if is a critique?
As a photographer looking for national exposure, getting critiqued is an important part or recognition and if you can’t stand the heat - you know the rest ...
I sold this photo to Popular Photography for use in their monthly feature “The Fix” knowing they would use it as a lesson of what not to do. In fact I agree with them that the image was a bit over-saturated, and I was curious to see what their “fix” would be.
As I suspected, they de-saturated it to make the sky not so orange, but they also let the horses fall into the shadows.
Although I agreed with their take on the sky, I don’t know if I like what they did with the horses.
I understand their reasoning, hoping the viewer will discover the horses (almost by accident) almost as an afterthought - subjective to the sunset, but IMHO - the point of the photo was not the sunset or the horses but how all the elements came together to make for an elegant and striking photograph.
So which do you like better?
The original or the fix? Personally I think the horses look a bit too dark - but the sky looks more natural.
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Special thanks to Popular Photography
