Just a personal pet peeve of mine, but the horizon isn't level in the first four photos. Unfortunately, that detail will make any image, no matter how well conceived or captured, look like an amateurish snapshot. It's so easy to fix, I don't understand why you would share photos that you're proud of without correcting that one detail.
I'm sorry if you think this is harsh, but it really is the FIRST thing I see when I look at these.
I see you've corrected the leveling issues. Excellent. These are a hundred times better looking now.
I like Two and Three the most. Two for the poses of the animals (which you likely had no control over, but it looks nice nonetheless) and Three for the use of wide angle lens to make the beach look expansive. It might be that these all use around the same focal length, but something about the foreshortening of the white/brown horse in Three makes it look extra wide.
Personally, I would have bumped the exposure a little in post. It's good that you controlled the highlights in the initial exposure (any brighter would have forced some of the clouds to pure white), but the overall tone of the images is a little dark for me. Especially the dark-colored horses which look almost black.
Also, I think it might have been better to get the camera lower to make the horses look taller and more majestic.
Just a personal pet peeve of mine, but the horizon isn't level in the first four photos. Unfortunately, that detail will make any image, no matter how well conceived or captured, look like an amateurish snapshot. It's so easy to fix, I don't understand why you would share photos that you're proud of without correcting that one detail.
I'm sorry if you think this is harsh, but it really is the FIRST thing I see when I look at these.
Deleted User, I am very new in fstoppers and happy to Iearn from professionals like you.
I see you've corrected the leveling issues. Excellent. These are a hundred times better looking now.
I like Two and Three the most. Two for the poses of the animals (which you likely had no control over, but it looks nice nonetheless) and Three for the use of wide angle lens to make the beach look expansive. It might be that these all use around the same focal length, but something about the foreshortening of the white/brown horse in Three makes it look extra wide.
Personally, I would have bumped the exposure a little in post. It's good that you controlled the highlights in the initial exposure (any brighter would have forced some of the clouds to pure white), but the overall tone of the images is a little dark for me. Especially the dark-colored horses which look almost black.
Also, I think it might have been better to get the camera lower to make the horses look taller and more majestic.