Life behind bars

[Dustydeb]

Got a local show soon and was thinking of entering this.......I am a complete novice. Any thoughts? Title will be the above 'Life behind bars'.

[Flo]

I am not big into titles..and this one doesn't really fit.but the photo is not bad at all.I do like the crop.The focus hits the middle of the muzzle, and the eyes lose the sharpness.

The residential background for me defeats the title:confused:

[lundgrenj]

Why is his nose in focus and the eyes are not?

[Dustydeb]

It was just a pun on words because of the cage shadow on the face.....I feel sure I can come up with a better title lol.

The eye looks in focus to me.....quiet sharp......I'll have another look

Many thanks...

[tonydee]

Interesting shot, both thematically and compositionally. Still, the 50/50 divide right to left isn't well balanced - bottom left corner is gaping. DOF needed to include the thing in the ear. Can only agree the residential setting doesn't work in too well theme wise. Promising though.

Cheers,
Tony

[mritchy]

I would keep this as a funny shot you took, but I wouldn't enter it into a contest. If anything, the eyes should be in focus, which they are not. I don't like the other cow head in the background. Life behind bars is solitary.

[AmberTillman]

Life behind bars definitely isn't solitary, especially when you are cow, and definitely if you are in a prison system in California where overcrowding is an issue. I like the title. I think it works.

As far the DOF. That needs work. I would have tried to capture the entire cow in sharp focus and left everything else out of focus. That way, the bars and the cow, and the cow's emotion, would have been more the subject instead of the cow's nose. More light on the cows eyes would have been nice too. Perhaps some off camera flash...

Great idea, just needs some fine tuning.

[Dustydeb]

Thanks very much for your comments guys....much appreciated. :)

This was a quick grab and snap. My neighbor turned up with a trailer and 3 cows in it! Not a sight I see very often....Unfortunately I am limited in my equipment I have my camera 2 lenses and that's it....I am saving up and have a list of things I want/need to get...speaking of which. Can anyone advice on what a novice requires for starters to produce good quality pictures and not just snapshots.

Due to the above points and the fact that I was aiming in between bars, I thought it was just a little bit more quirky than some :lol:

Here's another one I took at the same time this one made me chuckle.... Out of focus but facial expression says it all..........

[Flo]

It was just a pun on words because of the cage shadow on the face.....I feel sure I can come up with a better title lol.

The eye looks in focus to me.....quiet sharp......I'll have another look

Many thanks...

It's not showing to be quite sharp here, perhaps compression is happening, but they are indeed OOF.

I always think that giving something a title ( unless its so obvious) keeps the photo from being something else to viewers. This is a cow in a fenced area.as cows are.:confused:

First off, learn to take good photos with the equipment you have, those two lens's can give some high quality results.its not the "stuff" that makes you good behind the camera. Look at what you are seeing in the viewfinder.think about composition, angles, lighting ect...its all a process.

[Dustydeb]

And trying to get arty in this one lol