Koukla (C&C)

[Benjo255]

 

[Austin Greene]

You asked for CC, so here it is:

- The watermark is incredibly distracting. Lose it, or maybe improve it. No one is going to steal a photo of your cat.

- Composition needs some work. She has a distracting wall/post/corner coming out of her head that is a different color from the rest of the frame. It sticks out like a sore thumb. She's also not really in a great part of the frame.

- Exposure is good. Good catchlights.

- In sum, it's just a cat photo. Maybe a step above a snapshot. You've got a great subject (she is beautiful), so maybe set up a proper backdrop and see if you can nail something similar. I'd also suggest shooting in portrait orientation for that one.

 

[Benjo255]

Thanks for your feedback.

The watermark is incredibly distracting. Lose it, or maybe improve it. No one is going to steal a photo of your cat.

I'll improve it in order to make it less distracting. May be I'll make it smaller and I'll go down with opacity. It's not there for a purpose of copyright. It's just a "signature".

She has a distracting wall/post/corner coming out of her head that is a different color from the rest of the frame. It sticks out like a sore thumb. She's also not really in a great part of the frame.

Yeah, I agree about the pink table leg coming out the head. It was an istant snapshot, so I didn't pay enough attention to the background composition, may be trusting too much in the bokeh. About the part of the frame I don't understand what you don't like of her position. Her head is centered, but coming from a movement from the lower right corner.

set up a proper backdrop and see if you can nail something similar. I'd also suggest shooting in portrait orientation for that one.

In the weekend I'll shoot a lot of cats' portraits and I'll have a uniformed background, as I said this is just a snapshot. What do you mean with "portrait orientation"?

Thank you for C&C, always welcome.

 

[Designer]

What do you mean with "portrait orientation"?

Turn your camera so the frame is taller than wide.

 

[Benjo255]

Turn your camera so the frame is taller than wide.

Oh ok. You mean vertical. That's a good idea!

 

[pixmedic]

Turn your camera so the frame is taller than wide.

Oh ok. You mean vertical. That's a good idea!

or, in LR (or your photo editing software of choice) you can crop "tall" by selecting 8x10 and dragging the corner until it is a verticle rectangle instead of a horizontal one.

 

[tirediron]

Actually, I'd be inclined to go to a square crop on the head. A little clone brush action and some masking, and you'd turn that into a really nice pet portrait.