Joyful!

[DianeM]

For your SAFFE critique, please! Here is a photo of my two year old Labradoodle doing his very best imitation of a snowplow! Looking for a general critique on composition

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/seazr/joyful.jpg

Camera Make: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Camera Model: E-510
Flash Used: No (auto) Focal Length: 14.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.0016 s (1/640) Aperture: f/3.5
ISO Equiv.: 100 Whitebalance: Auto

[RexK_Cozumel]

Composition wise I would crop in just a tiny bit. I feel like there is so much action with the dog digging in the snow that the empty space on the right kinda seems odd. Anyways I would process it a little different as well. I think this should would look really good as a lomo type shot and a little bit of vignetting.

[jdepould]

Subjectively, I don't think it reads quickly enough. It's difficult to get a sense of orientation with the dog, because you can't see the eyes.

Compositionally, I think it's strong, good application of a rule of thirds philosophy, and the vivid blue sky accents the white snow and almost-white dog quite well.

It seems lacking in ultimate sharpness, which might have something to do with the f/3.5 you used. In that situation I'd probably be shooting at least f/5.6, if not smaller. The background will still be blurred because of the close focus point and wide angle, but the subject itself will be sharper. You probably could've kept a quick shutter speed as well by kicking the ISO up a little bit.

[DianeM]

Composition wise I would crop in just a tiny bit. I feel like there is so much action with the dog digging in the snow that the empty space on the right kinda seems odd. Anyways I would process it a little different as well. I think this should would look really good as a lomo type shot and a little bit of vignetting.


OK-lomo is new to me, but I did try to do a bit of research on it. Generally accomplished through a good editing programlike Photoshop? I don't have Photoshop but attempted to make the picture a bit more 'playful'.

After
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e304/seazr/joyful-4.jpg

[RexK_Cozumel]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7611846@N05/2360540770/" title="joyful Lomo by Rex Cozumel, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2360540770_a85016dfed_o.jpg" width="599" height="449" alt="joyful Lomo" /></a>

Did a quick edit for you. would have been better if I had a bigger sized image to edit. the second image you did looks more like a chalk drawing effect. I dont think it works as well for this image. hope you like the edit i did tho.

[windrider86]

The first one by far is the best. Altho cropping it down a bit would help. Too much snow to the front of the dog loses the focal point.