King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by HeatherJ:
love the title! and the face.

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by Spork99:
Nice canine portrait esp. with the diffusion, but the background is terribly distracting and ruins the shot (for me anyway).

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by drydoc:
The stack of books have to go. Too distracting.

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by pitsaman:
This is more a blur portrait than soft focus,edges are not preserved and eyes are too dark! Background has too many things going on (books ,furniture),4 from me and next time will be better! :-)

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by jackditch:
personally i think most photos of animals are boring, although close ups of animals are more appealing. maybe a close up of the face alone with a flat colour background. might have been a good portrait.

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by dagaleaa:
what a softie.....love the soft focus and the muted colors

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by justine:
Great lighting and color. Wish his paw wasn't cut off there on the left. :( Other then that....I like this very much. It's very good. Good luck in the challenge.

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by TerryGee:
The dog has nice softness, but why did you shot him with all those distractions behind him?

King of the House
by tommy_t

Comment by FullyFocused:
This would have been a great photo if the right paw wasn't cropped out, and the books were more out of focus using a DOF as the soft focus.. the books are distracting.. but it's a nice photo

Ethernet
by tommy_t

Comment by amsmyth:
Greetings from the Critique Club: My first reaction to this is that it is flat overall. The hotspot and the red background carry the eye instead of the board. The shadow seems irrelevant and also too big for the image to carry the message I think you were trying to achieve. If you had moved the angle of the shot so that the board moved down and right, and then lit the green circuitry even more it might have been interesting. Possibly even moved the angle so that the circuitry was the central focal point?