The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
Last month I led another fun and fruitful tour in southern Chile. Pumas, as always, were our primary goal, and we were quite fortunate to spend time with a new family on this trip. Though I’ve seen many small cubs over the years, the chances to sit and watch them interact and play at close range are pretty rare. In this case, Mom had made a kill, and while she spent most of her time eating or resting, her twin cubs kept busy by chasing and playing with each other.
Wonderful capture! You really maximize the expressiveness of the scene by catching the cub in the air and having great lighting and sharpness on the face of the cub on the right, as well as catching his eye focused on his sibling. I would also add that having the a great natural looking and blurred background as natural and blurred foreground really makes the scene artistic. This is an awesome wildlife image that captured lots of emotion and cuteness!
maybe darken the background grasses a tiny bit and reduce the highlights on the lower cubs shoulder so that the textures of the fur come through a little more and the cubs stand out it bit more from the BG??
Great capture. Love the interaction. What I do not like is the obvious blurring of the background beyond what was captured. Make it subtle as at the moment it is too fake and detracts from what is a great capture.
What I do not like is the obvious blurring of the background beyond what was captured. Make it subtle as at the moment it is too fake and detracts from what is a great capture.
Well, you’d better blame my lens in that case. That is simply the result of the distance + depth of field.
And speaking as someone who purposely avoids “overediting” (including massive noise reduction, reducing Clarity, selective blurring, adding vignettes, and cloning elements) in my color work, this type of accusation rankles me a bit.
Below is a chunk of the original and unedited scene (as you can tell, it’s a sizeable crop) to show you how the depth of field looked in the wider view.
-meter spike from this one. What a terrific capture and I really envy you the experience. Most excellent. >=))>