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I captured this guy at a Safari Lodge in Tanzania last month. He was the nicest natured pooch. C&C please


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What a pose, with alert attentive ears and a soulful gaze on something (his master/companion?), fantastic portrait pose, with the delicately crossed hands, ooops I mean paws... And a gorgeous breed too, what is it???

The collar is the first thing I see though, maybe if you de-sat the collar it won't grab the viewer's eye unless it's got a symbolic meaning behind it or a special memory or something... Maybe try to darken the bright highlights in the TL cnr?

It's hard to judge sharpening really at these sizes, but gee the ears and nose look sharp as!!! Strange the eyes don't seem as sharp as the ears and nose to me... I wonder if that's due to the great seperation of the subject and the background that makes the subject look even sharper at the edges...?

Subject seems well exposed, maybe a smidge of levels (as in white level down a smidge, I wouldn't bring the black up)...?

His left hind might be a smidge close to the right side edge, but that's being a picky so-and-so... Just trying to provide C&C...

Good portrait, are we tempted to throw in a *soft* vignette?

Nice pic! A slightly tighter crop...take off a bit of the grass at the bottom, would improve the image in my opinion.

Thanks Andrew & Matt,
I really appreciate your constructive comments Now I just need to work with them. Oh for some photoshop skills.

The crop I can handle.
Am I on the right tack for a vignette. Ellipical marque tool around the subject, select the inverse - i.e. the outer border, paint with a broad soft brush, 15% opacity and 20% flow in black. This is all a bit foreign to me

SteveGriffin wrote:Thanks Andrew & Matt,
I really appreciate your constructive comments Now I just need to work with them. Oh for some photoshop skills.

The crop I can handle.
Am I on the right tack for a vignette. Ellipical marque tool around the subject, select the inverse - i.e. the outer border, paint with a broad soft brush, 15% opacity and 20% flow in black. This is all a bit foreign to me

G'day,

You're on the right track, it might be easier though another way... once you've inverted and feathered your selection, add a curves adjustment layer, then you can change it around as much as you want so you can play around with it, and the original image data isn't altered, just the way you look at it...

There's some vignette play in this thread here and a few examples...:
http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?p=185548#185548

Cheers.