Siamese Snoozing

Well she was until I got the camera out She's found a cosy spot to sleep in the pool cover.

My first photo post on here, all C&C welcome I just have a 350D and the kit lenses atm, but a long list of wants

Flash Used: Yes
Focal Length: 48.0mm
Exposure Time: 0.017 s (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO Equiv.: 100

Cropped and some PP in LR3, before and after shown as any PP tips very welcome. Thanks for looking

Interesting shot! I love how the blue of her eyes is brought out by the pool cover.

Critiques - the second one seems to be a little over exposed - of the two, I prefer the first even though it's a bit dark. There isn't much detail in the darker fur in the first, but she looks like a different cat in the second one.

The closest blurry leaf is distracting and makes my eyes hurt - I know it's difficult to get a cat to pose, but next time try to remove the leaf or try cloning this one out and cropping a little closer.

The spot of light at the very end of the pool cover is overly bright and distracting - while I hate manipulating photographs, perhaps this is a good candidate to super burn that highlight or conceal with a copied fold from the right side.

All minor considerations - overall, cute pic

love how the cats eyes match the basket. and i agree, would have looked 100x better if u clean out all the junk in front of the cat and cloned out the bright light in the bg.

Thanks for the comments

Sorry I should have been clearer, the second shot is the one straight from the camera. I just put it so you could see the changes I made in PP.

I've only had Lightroom3 for a few days, but I'll go back and see if I can figure out what to do with the highlight spot - it annoyed me too And point taken about the leaves - exactly why I'm here to learn stuff like this - thank you

I think I've done ok with the leaf removal but the highlight at the back is beyond my current LR skills - it just looked awful when I tried

Whaa! Great picture, love that cat!