Ok, here we go:
I love the scene you placed the dog in and the subject-background illumination looks good as well. At the given resolution it is hard to tell whether you nailed focus on the eye or not, but it looks good here.
The blue tint in some areas of the face might have been amplified by your saturation/vibrance treatment. Nothing severe, but it looks slightly off.
I would guess that this was taken with a 50mm lens? The problem with dogs and short focal lengths is that at close range they get distorted even more than human subjects, because their faces and bodies have a lot more depth.
You got down on the dog's level and made his head break the horizon line which is a good step towards great pet portraiture.
The crop feels uncomfortably tight to me. It is what I call ID-photo crop. It works better when you have eye contact through the lens but here you would need a lot more space in the direction the dog is looking to create a balanced shot. The background looks so beautiful, you can show more of it. Shooting in a slight downward angle did cost the dog its paws and the way the legs are cut by the frame makes me a bit uneasy.
Moving back a few steps and getting even lower to the ground for this shot, possibly creating some out of focus foreground flowers, would make this shot a lot more convincing for me.
I am not saying, that I didn't enjoy it, though...
I am not sure how these groups work.
Are you simply sharing an image, or are you asking for a critique of your work?
Cheers!
Neither am I. I'm open to any critiques though.
Ok, here we go:
I love the scene you placed the dog in and the subject-background illumination looks good as well. At the given resolution it is hard to tell whether you nailed focus on the eye or not, but it looks good here.
The blue tint in some areas of the face might have been amplified by your saturation/vibrance treatment. Nothing severe, but it looks slightly off.
I would guess that this was taken with a 50mm lens? The problem with dogs and short focal lengths is that at close range they get distorted even more than human subjects, because their faces and bodies have a lot more depth.
You got down on the dog's level and made his head break the horizon line which is a good step towards great pet portraiture.
The crop feels uncomfortably tight to me. It is what I call ID-photo crop. It works better when you have eye contact through the lens but here you would need a lot more space in the direction the dog is looking to create a balanced shot. The background looks so beautiful, you can show more of it. Shooting in a slight downward angle did cost the dog its paws and the way the legs are cut by the frame makes me a bit uneasy.
Moving back a few steps and getting even lower to the ground for this shot, possibly creating some out of focus foreground flowers, would make this shot a lot more convincing for me.
I am not saying, that I didn't enjoy it, though...
Thanks for the critique, very helpful. Checked the exif this was shot at 20mm.
On an apsc or m43 sensor, presumably?
I shoot headshots of dogs with 150mm upwards.