What’s Your Preference?

roostabunny · #1 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 06:56 PM

Photo-stalking feral kittens. This one managed a great pose for me in a lovely ray of light (thank you, kitty!).

50mm
f/2.5
1/1000
1600 ISO

(Side note: not sure why the high ISO, probably forgot to change it back to something more reasonable after leaving the cave tour)

Bumped up contrast and sharpened a bit in the face, then added some vignetting, which is pretty subtle given how dark much of the shot is, but I think it helps by toning down some of the sun dapples in the foreground.

My question is, are you totally distracted by that blade of grass? I could clone it out, but I wasn't sure it didn't belong there

zona5101 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-2011, 08:00 PM

clone it out!
That is a cute kitty shot!

crockny · #3 (**permalink**) 10-12-2011, 08:30 PM

First thing I noticed - clone it out! A little tighter crop might help also ... seems like too much of nothing in the rest of the photo ...

roostabunny · #4 (**permalink**) 10-12-2011, 10:02 PM

OK, awesome, thanks for the confirmation, Bruce and Crockny. So both, or just the one that hits the nose?

I'll plat with some crops, too. I like keeping some environment, but I can see it being a smidge too much in the full frame. Also, if I crop, a tighter vignetting effect might do a better job of taming that bright spot middle right. I burned it a little, but it's still really bright.

Thanks again!