Sunbathing on the Leaves

It may not be the most innovative or interesting photo, but it is just a portrait of my very photogenic puppy! She loves to pose and this photo is one of her more cutesy and different ones!!

Please critique and rate this photo, it may not be the best photo

but the background, and my pugs expression is spectacular, so I hope

that you see that this photo has some potential!

I'm probably not the right person to critique a dog photograph, but my main issue with this particular image is that it is very overexposed and therefore detracts from the subject.

 

What you must remember is that the camera will meter for light-to-mid-grey tones when setting the exposure parameters for the point of focus, and if the main subject is dark, then on any of the automatic exposure modes, the image will be too light as the camera overcompensates for the darker tones. The best way around that is to use manual exposure settings if at all possible, or meter off a mid-toned subject e.g. the leaves first before recomposing the image.

 

It looks like you've used flash here too, which hasn't helped overly much either as it adds to the blown out feel of the image. As you don't state what camera you are using, it is difficult to add any specific comments regarding this.

 

HTH :-)