My dog on a lazy sunday (B+W)

This is my dog. She used to get all the attention until her younger (human) sister showed up. Every now and then, she still gets some love from the camera.

1/800, f1.2, iso400. Natural non-diffused window light. 50L

I'm always trying to improve so feel free to critique any aspects of this photo.

Kool.
I would prob use less white bright background to right and more DOF.

Great look on the old hound, but it needs more dof, to bring the nose into focus as well as the eye's. I would also crop quite a bit off the r/h/s. Hope this helps.

Ditto on needing more DOF. Personally, I might crop a little, but not a lot from the right edge.

I like most of what you have done here. As others have said, more DOF and a little crop would work wonders. The background is a little bright as well.

Thanks for the input everyone. I recently got the 50L so it's hard not to keep that thing at 1.2

So cute

kuma1212 wrote in post #15693856
Thanks for the input everyone. I recently got the 50L so it's hard not to keep that thing at 1.2

Just like any new toy!

Though I must admit I just don't understand the appeal of very narrow DOF on a person (or animal)'s face. Sure you want to blur out the background in many cases, but not a person's hair or ears, or even one of the eyes as is the case here...

I would brighten the right eye a little bit to balance out the bright left eye (speaking from the audience's perspective)
As for composition, I would probably have shifted the dog's face to the right, because the eyes are looking to the left. This leaves the right side of the photo uninteresting.
cute doggie!

Nice shot. I would go for more dof and something to blur on the right. On my screen it all just drops to white. Not to interesting. Cute dog.

amychangmi wrote in post #15695995
I would brighten the right eye a little bit to balance out the bright left eye (speaking from the audience's perspective)
As for composition, I would probably have shifted the dog's face to the right, because the eyes are looking to the left. This leaves the right side of the photo uninteresting.
cute doggie!

That's a good point about where her eyes are looking. I hadn't thought of that. In this particular shot, moving the face to the right would have put her body into the shot, so that would have completely changed the entire photo. This version already has the right eye brightened a bit, I'll try and see if I can do it more. The contrast of the black dog with white wall+window/blown background was a little tough to expose. I needed a little fill light on that side (perhaps a small reflector). I was just happy to be able to bring out the texture of her fur and keep her eye sharp. Now that I look at it more, I do agree that I wish her nose was sharper.

Thanks again for the comments!

Lovely eyes.