Taking advantage of a recent snowfall. Our dog Jazz posing in the snow for the shooting. Use direct flash with Gary Fong's Lightsphere.
Slight left crop. Adjusted levels, brightness, contrast and applied a mild warming filter. Adjusted shadows and highlights. Saved as jpg. Resized. USM twice. Second time faded to about 10%. Saved for web.
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Wonderful photo. I imagine it would have scored higher if it had not been amongst dozens of other dog photos. Hard to stand out in this challenge.
Composition: Excellent. The very first place my eyes went were to your dog's eyes and I was able to take in the entire image and emotion of the photo immediately.
Processing: I appreciate that you did not over sharpen. His/her face is very nicely sharpened while the rest of the body fades into softer focus. Nothing is competing for attention. Color and levels are very good.
Distractions: I would have to say that the harshness of the background (or lack thereof) detracts a bit. Ideally you could have a had a softer background to work with.
This is a good portrait of your dog. However, I think that in order to score up in the mid-6's or higher you would really have to move to a more creative pose; something other than a centered pose. But I think you accomplished what you set out to do. Congratulations.
nice shot but the editing is to harsh there are way to many jagged edges i think you would have had a better photo if you didn't try to take out the background and just cropped the image closer. nice try all the same
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