My Cat Sped

[d_monger81]

Kinda of a quick shot of my cat, Sped. Not sure if its still a little over exposed on the left of the image. I have done an Auto WB and fixed some over exposure on her face. Had the camera on Auto ISO.



Exif
Canon 1000D
1/20 sec at f/1.8
50mm
ISO 800
No Flash

[karen_s]

Came out pretty nice over all. She is adorable, and kinda reminds me of the little stray that used to live with me.

Anyway, as far as the area on the left of the image, it doesn't look over exposed to me. What might be happening is that it is the brightest part of the image and that is often where our eye wants to go. So in this case, the eye tends to hit that area first rather than your intended subject. Honestly, your cat is so cute that the light stuff doesn't bother me all that much. You could try a vertical crop and remove most of that area. The brightest spot then might shift more to her little face.

And while I typically am not fond of too much stuff in the background, I kinda find whats back there intriguing. In a way it detracts yet for some reason it accents. Hmmmm, making me think.

I really like the depth of field you chose and your focus seems to be pretty well on the eyes. And you got a nice little catchlight in there too. What I like most though is the expression you caught.

[d_monger81]

Thanks karen_s. To be honest I am still amazed I actually got her in that position, I think she was trying to figure what I was doing. I already cropped down the image on the left as I had her in the middle and I wanted to give it better composition, but I can try to crop it some more. I'll pass on the compliments to Sped for you.

That face is priceless! Sped is beautiful.

If'n I was croppin it....
I'd crop tightly to Sped's face, but definitely just below the collar, place her face in the left third of the image, (heaven forbid breaking that rule of thirds), this would rid the image of the bright left side that Karen pointed out that attracts your eye. Offset the right hand side with the nicely blurred background for the other two thirds. Try to crop to a 1.6:1 ratio to accomodate Fibonacci and see how that looked.

That's what I'd try.

[karen_s]

Yeah, the cropping is just something to play with. You can often get several compositions out of one good image and I do like what you did here. It really comes down to what you want to say in your image and cropping can affect that.

She does have a bit of a quizzical look on her face. It's very cute, just draws me in.