I was setting up my camera to take some pictures of my dog when my cat came in and plopped down in his spot. The dog just looked at her like, "well NOW what am I supposed to do?"
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I had to edit quite a bit on this one because my lights weren't on and I wasn't ready to take a picture so the settings on the camera were off. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at editing, but I gave it a shot. I lightened the whole thing and dodged the background. Got rid of blueish tone. The dog was pretty much entirely in shadow so I had to dodge a lot, which meant I had to bump saturation, then deal with the pixilation. He's a little plasticky and fuzzy, but I didn't know how to get around that. Then other normal stuff like resize and USM.
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Great capture! I'll let other people complain about the wrinkles on the sheet (they don't bother me much), but I wish there were more definition to the dog. The crop is good, but the lighting almost makes him look like a cardboard cutout instead of a real dog.
I truly do like what you tried to do here... but would caution you that you will in all likelihood lose points for the amounts of wrinkles in your backdrop... they truly are a distraction.
6 - Different. Focus seems sharpest on the backdrop, which is also too dominant in my opinion. More refined crop on the left too where the dog's paw is coming into frame.
this may sound a bit harsh, the lighting could be improved, shaft of light above the cats head, and the gog is on the dark side, and all those creases in the backdrop. I do like the frame, and it's a great expression on the cats face.
There is some great action going on in this capture as well as expression. Love the look on the lounging cat who looks up at the approaching offender -the dog. The cat really does look as if it is stating "This is MY studio time". The upraised tail is slightly blurred but that gives me the impression of it twitching in annoyance at the appearance of the dog so it plays well into the emotions and title of the photo. There are some things that could be improved to move this shot out of a good shoot to an excellent one. First off is lighting. The dog and half of the cat are in shadow. Better illumination of your two main subjects will show the viewer more details (one can barely see the eye of the dog against his black fur). Next, the background. I know it may be an absolute pain in the butt to iron, but a cloth background that is flat and unwrinkled would give the main subject's a clean and uncluttered background to pop off of visually.
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