Practicing With My Kitten...

Ok guys had my first DSLR going on 2 weeks now...
i decided to mess around and shoot some pics of my kitten marley!
Please let me know what you think... and what i should do to shoot some better pics... Be Gentle haha

Awww -- Who can resist a kitty like that! What a beauty!

I can't get my cat to sit still long enough myself...

As for CC - I will leave that to others but you need to work on your composition a bit. The second one I would say is quite good - if you had the whole cat in the picture it would be really good.

Im really new to photography...
whats composition and how can i make that better!

and for these i was completly messing around...
the reason for the diffrent tones is because there different color tones used just kind of screwin around

Messing around is always good

Some general composition techniques are here -> Link

For someone just starting out I would recomend learning the Rule of Thirds and the easiest of all "Fill the Frame". Rule of thirds -> link

i appreciate the comments and crtiticsm i guess in tim i will get it...
how can you use these rule of thirds for these knds of pictures just curious i can
see landscapes and stuff but sometimes diffrent angles on things are unique and what.

Very pretty cat, it looks like you are off to a good start. I will just throw one more thing out there as a general rule.... there are thousands anyway, don't cut off feet. weather people or animals, you dont want to cut then ends of their paws, or for people cut their feet out of the picture. Good start though.

It is generally accepted that the rule of thirds when shooting portraits/animals is centered around the eyes. In your second shot you did get the eyes in the bottom/left third, but you cut off the paw at an odd spot (try not to cut limbs at joints).

The framing on the first shot is just too low and too far left, and it's creating odd cropping of limbs. Focus is too close to the far edge of the frame with too much dead space on the top/right.

yea true! thanks for the great feeback haha the thing is shes a kitten and kittens dont stop moving haha unless shes sleeping... so if i ever get her to sit still what would be the best position when using these rules examples would be great... plus i really dont like to duplicate things i dont want my stuff looking exactly the same....
i do appeaicate the comments greatly

Thenicky wrote in post #5675052
yea true! thanks for the great feeback haha the thing is shes a kitten and kittens dont stop moving haha unless shes sleeping... so if i ever get her to sit still what would be the best position when using these rules examples would be great... plus i really dont like to duplicate things i dont want my stuff looking exactly the same....
i do appeaicate the comments greatly

Good practice for your panning skills

lol dont laugh but whats panning i know you shoot moving objects but hoes it done

Thats just it, following a moving target while keeping your movements smooth and steady.

haha i will try and i can only tryy hahahaha