First C&C

[Cosha]

Hi all as you can see im quite new here

This is one of the first shots i took of my dog "Roxy"

I find it very hard to take pictures of her as she is black! :confused:

The only PP i have done is the B/W conversion (i feel its slightly over exposed)

I feel i did a good job on the composition and DOF

Thanks

How does everyone feel about it?

[DerekSimon]

The twigs around her are slightly distracting specially the one that is really close to her head. Other than that for a dark colored dog, the shot came out fairly well.

[Cosha]

I Know :) I wondered how long it would take for some one to notice that!

Twigs always ruin my shots, im trying not to use PS as much but i know that will have to be cloned out! i ruined a great shot of 2 sheep and again a twig in the way! :D

[Sisyphus]

Did you use any flash? I'm wondering if this might provide a little fill in this case?

[Cosha]

No i never, now that i have read about lighting, and now that i have my speedlight im waiting to use it! i took this shot on 7th Dec 2008 - so it really was one of the first!

i have used my pop up flash befor when taking pictures of roxy - the result was the typical hotspots with the black fur silvery color, and with a few stops down i loose everything in the background

so it was only take with natural light

[Sisyphus]

I was thinking more along the lines of bouncing the light from the left side -- it would need to be pretty diffuse. I think you're right that direct flash would not be ideal.