pawby
redpandaComment by tristalisk: Initial impact: Ahhhh it's catzillaa!!!cool.
Does it meet the Challenge? No Unfortunatly it doesn't meet the challenge. Brokeh is using an out of focus background to enhance the subject of na image.You have a shallow DOF that slowly fades back and causes the cats leg to go out of focus. But no real back ground to speek of. If you had had the cats head as the background and out of focus to where it is just barely in identifiable that would have been a good use of brokeh. I can see those large yellow eyes gleaming out from behind those intimidating claws now....oooh creepy..
Focus; The cats paw has very good focus. I can see each of the individual hairs. I realy like the focus on the paw itself.
Color: well theres not much color to speak of in this shot. The few colors there are such as the pink on the bottom of the paws looks to be correct. I don't feel however that you need much more color in this shot. So I would have to say this was done well.
Composition. Short of the lack of background the composition look nice. I can only see a few things in this area that are distracting. The little bitts of dirt on the cats fur wich were already mentioned. The other item I find distracting is the checkered cloth. I feel that a sollid color would have worked better.
Lighting: Beautifull lighting. I have nothing at all I can say that would improve your lighting.
Overall: I like this photo. If it had not been in a brokeh challenge I would have given it a 6 as is. With the few small changes I had mentioned I feel it could easily have scored it a 8 or 9 in any challenge. This is a wonderfull shot that just did not quite make the challenge IMO. So please keep up the great work and good luck in future challenges.
Tristalisk
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