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LynnSF
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I have been lurking forever and finally decided to participate...I own and show a Rottweiler and love shooting pics of everyone elses dogs as well as mine. This is a picture of one of my breeders dogs...any and all feedback welcome...

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Dec 16, 2008 at 07:36 PM

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Nice dog. would have been better if you could have got some catchlights in the eyes which look a bit dead otherwise./

Welcome to the forum anyway.

Dec 16, 2008 at 09:19 PM

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Welcome, Lynn.

I am a dog lover. Nice to see some dog images.
Pose is cute. Catchlights would improve.
DOF is well-chosen.
Framing is good.
White/bright area far right is extremely distracting, and my eyes keep jumping over there. You could tone it done in PS, clone it out, or look for another opportunity.

Scott

Dec 17, 2008 at 12:41 AM

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Welcome Lynn,

I love the expression - "Oh if I could only get over there."

I'll second Scott's and Paul's comments.

Thanks for sharing...

Bob

Dec 17, 2008 at 12:52 AM

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LynnSF I am not that found of the framing and the colors.
Here is another suggestion:

2012 © Kaden K.

Dec 18, 2008 at 01:49 AM

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"Play!?"

Dec 19, 2008 at 06:46 AM

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Really glad you chose to participate and finally post. This is a cool image. I love it when an image is technically competent as well as fun. Being a dog person I feel compelled to comment as well.

Nice thing about our medium is that we can agree to disagree. Accordingly I agree with some of the comments that have been made and disagree with some.

First I think there are some catchlights in his eyes. Are they great? No. But this is not a posed pet portrait and so to accidentally get any catchlights is a plus. It isn't like you used strobes. But they definitely draw my eyes to his.

Tremendous use of depth of field in this. I like the background. My only complaint with the image is what Scott mentioned. The bright whatever in the far right is distracting. I like your composition with the big guy in the left part of the frame looking towards the open space (camera right). But I, unfortunately, am also drawn that way.

I disagree with the comments about the colors. I find the colors in your image very pleasing. I really like the browns (and greens) balancing the browns in your dog's coat.

I dislike Kaden's processing treatment of this. But I really like his cropping. He took out the bright on the right but yet left the image very well balanced with him looking to the open space. The blokeh of the leaves above his head is great. Just for me, if you took his cropping and your color treatment you definitely have something to hang on your wall.

Thanks again for sharing this.

What follows is nothing if not an absolutely shameless, transparant plug of my dog shoot:

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/714345/0?keyword=halle#6449622

Lynn, if you wanted to comment on mine, I would appreciate it. The post is two weeks old so don't bump the thread. But would appreciate a PM.

Ron

Dec 19, 2008 at 03:25 PM

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