I was trying to get a shot of the cat and the hamster, but I wasn\\\'t expecting Sassy to attack. (She\\\'s usually pretty good with the hamsters.) I was taking the shot as she batted Kate, and I happened to catch her red-pawed. Kate is somewhat washed out (which is difficult considering she's white.)
Note -
The "painted toe nails" had nothing to do with the photo. Sass tends to claw up the furniture, so we aply rubber claw covers. And the furry creature is a hamster, who was merely being tapped, not eaten.
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a very funny interpretation of the title! the composition is quite good, although the go-cart wheels (?) are a little distracting. however, when shooting candids like this, we can't always choose our foregrounds.
however, i think this image could have been gretly improved with different processing. this is an advanced challenge, so you could have been much more flexible with the PP.
the flash light is very harsh, so a masked multiply layer to tone that down might have helped there, and i think converting this to b/w would have helped focus our eyes on the action.
Cute but I don't think you need all that busy stuff above his/her rump or right of his/her left elbow (on your right) and that would drop the cat's face exactly into the rule of thirds both horizontally and vertically and I think it would work for this pic ... 6
I think this photo looks a little to 'homemade'. It is a great family album shot and I am a cat lover but the coloured claws add no sense of atmosphere and I fear they are perhaps a little pointless. The imposing black shadow on the right is also very eye distracting.
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