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My Beautiful Belle
My Beautiful Belle
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Challenge: Centered Composition II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Olympus E-500 EVOLT
Lens: Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED
Location: Home
Date: Dec 27, 2006
Galleries: Portraiture, Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 27, 2006

 Belle is a 4 month old Blue Doberman puppy we adopted.

Cropped, contrast, saturation, and resized!

Statistics
Place: 401 out of 415
Avg (all users): 3.9442
Avg (commenters): 3.1765
Avg (participants): 3.7558
Avg (non-participants): 4.0901
Views since voting: 875
Views during voting: 245
Votes: 197
Comments: 21
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/09/2007 06:09:07 PM
out of focus, or too fuzzy
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 01/09/2007 07:21:54 AM
OOF
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 01/09/2007 06:42:08 AM
points off for focus problem
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 01/08/2007 02:20:20 PM
OOF
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 01/07/2007 03:30:08 PM
I wish the black was a little darker. She has a very thoughtful look on her face.
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 01/07/2007 02:05:24 PM
Focus is soft and a exp is a bit to bright imho
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 01/07/2007 12:04:34 PM
I don't feel soft-focus was the best choice here.
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 01/06/2007 08:00:41 PM
distracting background and too out fuzzy.
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 01/06/2007 04:29:48 PM
i wish i could see more of her face.
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 01/05/2007 02:34:19 PM
Cute dog but this shot is too soft, as in a little out of focus.
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 01/04/2007 12:46:05 PM
4 the focus, the sky, the composition...are wrong.
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 01/04/2007 12:32:08 PM
The focus is a bit soft on this shot..
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 01/04/2007 12:25:09 PM
I would have preferred some focus
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 01/04/2007 08:06:31 AM
that is one pretty pup - but the focus is too soft on the dog
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 01/03/2007 10:02:12 PM
She's beautiful...but not in focus unfortunately :-(
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 01/03/2007 05:37:22 PM
Blurry
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 01/03/2007 12:28:20 PM
Cute puppy, but this image is very unfocused.
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 01/03/2007 07:09:16 AM
Awww, looks just like my dog Bryher when I got him! Now he's 2 1/2. See him here: www.dogster.com/?67522 (he's also featured in many of my portfolio pictures).

As for technical comments - the picture is a bit out of focus, the background is distracting, and there are a few color problems. I'd lighten shadows, darken highlights, and increase both midtone and overall contrast. Then turn down the saturation a bit (you might even desat the magenta channel completely). The background isn't great - I personally often like backgrounds in shots to give them context, but by and large the DPC voters don't (I've been bashed many a time) so it might be better to take a lower angle and get only the sky behind the dog or put the dog in front of something more neutral (like a wall). Even though I like stuff in the background, this one is problematic because it's so much brighter than the dog that it steals attention - you might want to burn it to make it less noticable, or apply a blur effect to it (but select out the dog first so the dog doesn't get more blurred). Then the photo needs some sharpening - it would probably be most effective to sharpen just the face and chest, but USM over the whole thing would be okay, too. In the future, this type of picture would work best when the dog is looking at the light rather than backlit because you lose his/her features (you could also use a reflector, but if your dog is like mine, who has time to set one up when the dog's running all over).
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 01/03/2007 06:31:30 AM
OOF ... blown highlights in the sky are distracting ...
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 01/03/2007 03:50:28 AM
its a bit out of focus
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 01/03/2007 12:42:52 AM
the focus seems soft on the pooch
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