I did a shot of Beanie when she was just a pup using the same backdrop and boa - the contrast was appealing to me, but not to others. I decided to go ahead and shoot this again - she's much bigger now. It'll be interesting to see how this does with the DPCers.
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Place: 216 out of 244 Avg (all users): 4.6838 Avg (commenters): 4.3333 Avg (participants): 4.6228 Avg (non-participants): 4.7417 Views since voting: 967 Views during voting: 321 Votes: 234 Comments: 7 Favorites: 1 (view)
First Impression - the most important one: That poor pup ... torture for art .. hehehe ... nice concept and good use of colours.
Composition: Not too bad .. I think that cropping Beanie more on the thirds so her eyes or mouth match the horizontal thirds may have added something, but I am unsure. I like the DOF .. it works with the green and some of the boa being out of the DOF.
Subject: I do like the colours ... but do they enhance the subject .. or scare it of?. Nah really it is a good shot and meets the challenge well.
Technical (Colour and light): Lighting good, reasonably sharp picture...
To grow its vote?: This is really hard, I have not often seen peoples pets score really well outside a pets type challenge. I think that people are immediately "oh your pet" or "oh a dog" and mark it down on that ... I don't know why but that does seem to happen, I think it is tied to the oh a pet snapshot thing. But I have also seen this happen with peoples photos of children.
Summary: I think this is a good picture, I like it and more over I think you like it ... and hey its you liking it counts!
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Haha, very fun shot. Your subject (as unwillling as she looks) looks priceless! IMHO the lighting is a tad on the cool side. Maybe some WB correction or more natural lighting conditions may have helped?
Hmm.. I hadn't thought about offsetting the main subject from the color. Interesting. This little guy/gal doesn't look so happy about the setup though!
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