Bubblegum Tongue

[shutternut]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutter_nut/2324806557/" title="Bubblegum Tongue Daisy by ristinek3875, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2324806557_fc29e089fc_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Bubblegum Tongue Daisy" /></a>

I took this photo of my boyfriend's dog and made some minor adjustments to lighting and color using piknik through flickr. I know it's not the most advanced of programs (I do have Photoshop CS3 but I'm in the process of learning it). I am a beginner in the DSLR world and this is one of my very first photographs. I just want to see what kind of track I am on, as I want to take my photography beyond recreational use. Any and all helpful critiques are on the photo (and all elements that it entails) are welcome and enthusiastically sought. Thank you!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutter_nut/2324806557/

[RexK_Cozumel]

Composition is a little too tight top and bottom. Pay attention to your backgrounds the dogs head blends in with his body here and you lose a sense of where one starts and the other stops. And the vignetting here is not really necessary since the subject fills the entire frame it is more of a distraction than bringing focus to the subject.

[windrider86]

Thought I might help you out a little bit on your postings. Cute pooch!

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