A Man and His Dog

[ccphoto]

[NorthernFocus]

Excellent.

[Shadowman]

Nicee.

[Geoff F]

Nice angle and good exposure. It would have been easy to end up with lost detail on the white dog.

[KimC]

Love this Chris! Has so much feeling to it.

[madcrow]

Just proves love is not confined solely to humans. You captured the spirit of man, his love for the dog and the dog for his master.

[John 2]

Perfectly caught to show the bond between the man and his pup. Very nice image.

[rpcrowe]

Great capture of the love between the man and his dog...

[Mike Buckley]

Such wonderful composition and capture of the relationship between the two subjects! Agreed with all of the above except that, in disagreement with Geoff, a lot of detail in the bright tones in the dog is lost. Those details are most definitely recoverable by selecting that area and dragging the middle of the tone curve toward the bottom right corner of the graph.

[ccphoto]

I didn't like how the straight curves correction still left bright spots so I used two luminosity masks - Bright Lights and Super Lights, pulling the same curve you suggested on each selection. There is a bit more detail now. Thanks for seeing it better than I did the first edit in.

[Mike Buckley]

Much nicer!

[bnnrcn]

Great shot, I like the re-edited version

[lovelife65]

Emotionally beautiful capture

[Rita]

I like your re-edit better than the original. You have sure succeeded in capturing the strong emotion of the bond between man and dog. This brought back wonderful memories of how my dad was with my dog.

[Anne22]

Beautiful shot ....

[Manfred M]

The one thing that jumps right out at me is the position that you cropped the man's legs. Cropping through the knee and below the knee give you a weaker image. Cropping above the joint generally works best, but you have to watch out for that when you compose.

[GBO25]

Just love it. You can tell by the "look" on the dog's face that he/she's in heaven. Excellent.

[LePetomane]

Dogs truly are man's best friend.

[ccphoto]

The one thing that jumps right out at me is the position that you cropped the man's legs. Cropping through the knee and below the knee give you a weaker image. Cropping above the joint generally works best, but you have to watch out for that when you compose.

Sometimes you aren't given a choice. There was so much debris right below his right knee that I had to crop above that...and I didn't want to miss that moment between the two. I think the image and emotional connection far outweigh the crop position.

[Manfred M]

Sometimes you aren't given a choice. There was so much debris right below his right knee that I had to crop above that...and I didn't want to miss that moment between the two. I think the image and emotional connection far outweigh the crop position.

Understood to a point. Look at the POV you are shooting from. You are looking down on your subjects. Had you dropped you something closer to eye level, you could have potentially solved the awkward crop as well as shot from a more personal POV.

Shots like this usually work better when you are not looking down at your subjects.