Greetings from the Critique Club Eugene.
This is a pretty funny shot. It takes a majestic animal and makes him a little more like a house cat. Great timing.
Sounds like you did a lot of editing on this. It doesn't look overworked, so I think you were successful there. I agree that a damp green background might have been a little overpowering, but its hard to tell without seeing it. I personally think you should have darkened out the background a bit more to make the tiger stand out as the subject a little more. As it is, he and his hairball appear a little to muddled by the background and I don't think they demand enough attention. On first inspection (I try to just give it a real quick once-over before really analyzing it.) I missed the hairball altogether. Not until I read the title did I begin to see the hairball, and then the link to the challenge. That may be at the heart why this didn't score a little higher.
Technically the shot is pretty good, but with any portrait, the key is in the eyes. I know you can't really control the lighting there in the zoo, but I wish the tigers eyes stood out more. Here, instead of the eyes, I find myself looking at the nose. I think that's also why the hairball doesn't stand out. For some reason my eye just stays fixated on the details of the nose.
Anyways, I hope that gives you a little insight at least into what I saw, and some food for thought. Cheers. |
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