Awwwww Too Cuteby
OneSweetSinComment by Tranquil: Howdy from the Critique Club!
Been getting some CC's from you and whattaya know but i get to do yours!
As for this shot---well, you really achieved the cuteness factor! What a fuzzy, cute subject! This one is a great model and would be fun to work with. I really like how you included the pumpkin in this shot. Even though it is obviously a fairly small pumpkin, it still seems to tower over your subject, giving it even more of an emphasis on the helpless expression that your subject portrays. The leaves also add a good sense of the season and balance with the pumpkin well.
As for criticism, this is what i have: I feel that you might have slacked off when it comes to editing this. I think that a clean black background would have lessened the distraction from the subject. Using the cloning brush and the levels tool, you could have easily made a seamless background out of this. I also feel that you could have clones out some distracting debris in the bottom right part of the image as well as on your backdrop.
Compositionally, i feel that there are a couple of problems. Firstly, I feel that both the top and the bottom of the image seem to have been chopped off. It is a little bit too crowded at the very bottom and I feel that there needs to be some breathing space above the pumpkin stem. The placement of the kitten is right on though as well as its pose.
Lastly, I believe that there might be a slight blue cast to the image which again could have been fixed in the post-editing process.
Overall, I find this a charming and very cute image. I feel that it was underrated, but I also do believe that some of my suggestions may have helped out the image. Still a very good and modest submission. I personally rated it an eight purely by the way it made me feel. Whenever a photograph truly makes me feel a way, then to me it must be a very good image. Thanks for submitting and also for commenting on my images :).
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns feel free to contact me. Hope this CC wasn't TOO long!!!
Thanks,
Lee
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