Advice please ;)

[Travy]

Hi guys.

To most people its not much of photo.
But for some reason i like it..

Any ideas from you guys that actually know what you are doin on how to improve it at all?
Its straight off the camera just resized to post it...

[Bluebell]

You have caught a lovely expression on the cat's face, and the eyebrows are full of character.
I feel I would like to see more light on some parts of the face. I also have a cat with a very dark coloured face and find it difficult to get an image which shows facial detail the way I would like.

[Travy]

Yeah i agree about the facial expression, i think thats what makes it appealing to me..

She was laying in the shadow of a bush so it is a little dark on her face and was a bit hard for me to get more light on it.

might have to mess around a little in PS with it.

[gstark]

One suggestion, and one request.

The request: please, read what I have written on the front page of this site about image sizes. I am getting rather tired of those who do not observe our simple guidelines. Especially as this is my third comment about this exact problem within the last few days.

Then, please resize your image.


The suggestion: Perhaps crop this image more tightly, so that there's less background? I'm thinking a square crop.

[blacknstormy]

Travy - I can see why you like the shot, but it really does need more light on the face, and especially the eyes. I had a quick play in PS - curves adjustment, basic dodging of highlights and midtones - especially around the eyes, and finally, a quick slight sharpen - as I say, a quick play, but it brings out the detail in the face a lot more, which to me at least, is what the shot needed.

What do you think?

[jethro]

Cats Cats! Eat Shit and Sleep! What do you do with a CAT?
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http://www.skipmorrow.com/html/gallerie ... meset.html

Jethro

[Mitchell]

For me the narrow depth of field and the similarity between the hues and texture of the cats body and the background makes it look like an evil monster with a cats head and an ill defined body extending backward!

(not a criticism - I find the shot intriguing!)

[Travy]

One suggestion, and one request.

The request: please, read what I have written on the front page of this site about image sizes. I am getting rather tired of those who do not observe our simple guidelines. Especially as this is my third comment about this exact problem within the last few days.

Then, please resize your image.


The suggestion: Perhaps crop this image more tightly, so that there's less background? I'm thinking a square crop.

resized.. i had made it 1000 wide instead of 800

[Travy]

Travy - I can see why you like the shot, but it really does need more light on the face, and especially the eyes. I had a quick play in PS - curves adjustment, basic dodging of highlights and midtones - especially around the eyes, and finally, a quick slight sharpen - as I say, a quick play, but it brings out the detail in the face a lot more, which to me at least, is what the shot needed.

What do you think?

personally i think maybe half way between the original and what you have done would be about spot on.. Might just be me, but your alterations just start to look a little fake to me.. but yeah, somewhere half way between would look good i think.

Thanks for taking some time with it

[Travy]

For me the narrow depth of field and the similarity between the hues and texture of the cats body and the background makes it look like an evil monster with a cats head and an ill defined body extending backward!

(not a criticism - I find the shot intriguing!)

i totally understand what you mean

[gstark]

resized.. i had made it 1000 wide instead of 800

Thank you. It is appreciated.

[sunnylass]

Cats Cats! Eat Shit and Sleep! What do you do with a CAT?
????????????Jethro

Gawd that sounds similar to Men. They eat, shit and sleep. What would I do with a man? Erm you really dont wanna know

[Travy]

Had a bit of a play with my limited photoshop skill

lightened it a little.. i ldont mind this..




Cropped it.. but i dont like it cropped at all..

[who]

I think the best things have been done with this pic, short of trying to white out the background in the high-key style? Although the furry cat edges would be impossible to outline well.

I have this problem as well, with a long haired Belgian Shepherd, made worse by the fact the carpet we have downstairs is all brown or dark psychadelic 70's stuff..... and every photo inside lacks that contrast, compared to on say grey concrete.