a shot of a beautiful kitty in Portland Oregon

I really like this picture. The blue in the cats eyes are my personal favorite thing about it. I also like the DOF with the OOF foreground as well as the background. This, as well as the beautiful Cat itself, makes for one interesting picture. I would lighten it a bit just for comparison sake, and I might crop some off the right as well. Welcome to the forum buddy

Brian Kersey

Nice. I do agree you should crop either the left or the right. I like the OOF on the left, but cropping it would also get rid of the blown out building in the background. However that leaves the cat moving out of frame, instead of in to the frame, so the right crop is probably be better. Try both and see which one you like more. You could crop to the edge of the blown building on the left, and to the edge of the ledge on the right. Make it more or a portrait than a landscape.

I can not comment on composition or other technical things but, I love the picture. It has me wondering what has caught the cats intense attention.

The settings are nice but compete with the image. I think you need to crop to focus on the cat with more above for him to look into. I think that also removes the feeling that he is going to jump off the ledge to his death.