Cat vs. Ant

[Josh66]

05181127 - square by J E, on Flickr

 

[Robin Usagani]

I think you miss the focus on the ant


Nice pic

 

[bentcountershaft]

So who won?

 

[Josh66]

LOL - I guess the ant won. She just watched it walk away.

 

[Timoris]

That's beautiful. I like how clean everything is and the way the light falls upon the scene.

 

[mishele]

Love it!!! What a fun shot Josh!! It made me giggle so that's a ....win!

 

[manaheim]

This is very cute. The crop is bothering me a bit, but the idea is fantastic.

 

[Josh66]

Thanks everyone.

The crop is bothering me a bit

In what way? More off the right side to crop it back into the 2:3 aspect ratio?

Here is the original:

05181127 by J E, on Flickr

I prefer the square crop.

 

[mishele]

Crop it right above the paper on the bottom.

 

[Timoris]

The square does unsettle me a bit. It would work better if it was peinted with rounded edges.

What about crapped right above the paper at the bottom?

 

[Josh66]

I might try that later tonight (I have some other pictures to work on anyway).

I kinda cropped it by scrolling my browser, and square is still looking best to me, lol.

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I think cropping the square back into 2:3 by taking the right third off looks better than cropping it above the piece of paper. To do that I think I would need to rescan it at a higher resolution though.

 

[manaheim]

I think it needed to be longer ... square crop makes sense given what you have, but I think it would have worked more if it was more of a panoramaish.

 

[mishele]

Josh, honestly the square doesn't bother me. If you were going to try another crop, I would do what I said above. I don't mind the square, the empty space to the right helps show the scale of the situation....lol And it also has neat lighting. ( I'm drinking so.......take that all as you will...lol)

 

[Josh66]

I think it needed to be longer ... square crop makes sense given what you have, but I think it would have worked more if it was more of a panoramaish.

Ah. The ant was never far enough away to do that... I could move the ant pretty easily in PP, but then the cat wouldn't be looking right at it, and I would probably have to cut off part of her head.

Square it is.

 

[Davor]

Oh i Love this! very original. the only thing i see that could be improved is the angle this was shot at, i think an overhead view from the cats perspective would have worked much better getting the ant more in the picture and putting more emphasis on the more "dominant" creature

Great work