My friend\'s cat Merlin. I almost called it Merlin, but I figured not everyone would be thrilled with the title.
I wasn\'t going to enter anything, but I was going through my pictures from this week and thought this would work well as a square crop. I predict something right around my average, which is fine. I just want to do stuff at or above my average from now one.
I\'m a bit dissapointed that I couldn\'t get rid of the noise around his mouth and at the bottom of the picture, but it was low light and high ISO, so oh well!
I\'m sure I\'ll get panned for taking a picture of a pet (even though it\'s not mine) but that\'s ok. I had fun taking pictures of him :)
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Lovely, first cat picture that I am even inclined to like ... the lighting here seems a little off with the left eye itself in the dark - would have preferred something a little more even on both eyes :).
Some lightening around that left eye might have been useful for balance - a square crop lends itself to symmetrical composition. On the same lines, making the eyes level in frame would have made this a more comfortable view - one's first impression is that something isn't quite right about it, and I fear first impressions are pretty important at dpc. Good stuff otherwise, of course, but those minor points might prove more important than one would like.
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