The blur is a very small element (the tail is moving, it was on the down swing). The soft focus is from tree reflections in the glass making the bricks/blocks appear soft (which is also where the funky colors are coming from). Though this isn't scoring very well, I do still like it very much. I love her blue eye. I love the odd colors. There's not much editing to this, cropped, a little saturation added (shot in raw) and a little sharpening.
[Nov. 1st, 2009 06:46:23 PM]
Doing the happy dance, got another Posthumous Ribbon! YAY!
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I'm not going to deduct for it, but I'm not really seeing the blur or soft focus. It's certainly an interesting subject, but what grabs me is the somewhat overexposed fur and greenish cast. Perhaps it was intentional, but it really draws the eye.
You have something funky going on in the bottom right corner of your photo that is very distracting. it's also in at the top in the walls. There is green tint that is over done in the walls as well. I 'm having a hard time finding where your blur is occuring in the photo. The lighting on your subject is great. I actually like the muted tones of hte shot as well.
I really don't think that blur fits this. Soft focus definitely, but not blur. However, I think these techniques are definitely open to interpretation, so it's not getting in my way. -8- (but I thought you should know in case you are getting any low votes. beautifully done, btw)
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