My niece's pet chihuahua wearing a witches hat for Halloween.
It was difficult to pick a "best" image for this challenge, what is best, the photo requiring the most technical skill, the most luck, the most meaning, the most pop, or the photo having the most emotional impact to the photographer.
I decided to go with technical skill (hah) vs the others. I am not emotionally attached to this photo like I would be to others however emotion to me does not mean best.
I also had the difficult choice of a color, black and white, or sepia look. My choice is obvious here, however I am unsure of how that will benefit or harm my reception of this entry. The original background was bright red, and while I could alter the color of the background it seemed to distract.
With all the smooth gradients in the dogs fur I decided a sepia tone would look best. I over processed the red in the image to add the weathered look to the background.
Another choice was border or not. In the past I have favored borders but it seems that the majority of people dislike borders and it would mean less image within the 720 rule so no borders.
No telling how this will do, I imagine not well given people have picked their very best of their lifetime but just being part of the 1000th challenge is reward enough in this case.
So without further ado Happy 1,000th Challenge DPC! May we have 1,000, and 10,000, 100,000, and countless more! Good luck to everyone!
Post Challenge---
I didn't do as well as I would have liked but did better than I had expected. Ironically I had originally picked a nice sunset/sunrise picture for my entry but figured that DPC was more sick of sunrises than cute little dogs, haha (looking at second and third place). Oh well haha.
Here is the crop only version of the same shot...
Thanks to everyone who commented and voted!
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Thank you all so much for your comments, I feel very touched. I will try to address a few points quickly...
Her name is Squirt.
The background noise was intentional, don't ask me why I just liked it. :)
The original title was going to be "Wicked Woof of the West" but I wasn't sure my niece would like her pup called wicked. :)
Squirt is a generally nervous looking little pup which is the look some of you are trying to describe, her large eyes play part of that. She didn't seem to notice the hat at all.
I actually did apply the burn tool to the eye to make the pupil stand out more, but maybe it could have used a little more. :)
I have included a color copy in the images description for all of you.
Thanks again and Cheers!
Interesting pet portrait. Halloween, I presume. I like the sepia toning, but the graininess of the background couples with the low gran of the subject gives this one an unpleasant halo look to me.
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