HaXXa

Fjord photo

Hi HaXXa, I am sorry to keep tossing your photo, the horse is obviously curious and probably quite pretty in real life, and seemed to like you when you took the shot, but when you shoot horses head-on without a long lens, the image gets distorted so that the animal appears to have a big head and a little butt, both considered major conformation defects. I'm not knocking your photography skills, as, for example, every newspaper reporter on the planet seems to do this too -- in various contexts, I've often had to order photographers to shoot a horse photo only from the side and at least 20 feet back so as to not make an animal look like a plug! Maybe your lens was not technically a "wide angle" but even a standard focus lens is too short for front-on shots in horse photography. My point is that the shot does not flatter the horse nor show typical breed characteristics. To give you an idea of what I am talking about, here is an example of a head shot taken from the side without the distortion problem: Image:Fris.jpg. Montanabw^(talk) 20:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

-- No problem -- I can see why you removed it. Maybe a little too artistic for Wikipedia. I just disagreed with you about it being distorted, as the effect is made on purpose. Anyways, as it is not going to be used in any articles you might as well add a deletion tag to it if you don't mind :) (I don't know how to do it, so I can't myself). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.91.116.72 (talk) 21:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)