Wanna Play??

[ChowChi-Ching]

Got this last Spring and never really looked back at it..... there is something keeping me from deleting it but I am not sure. I kind of feel like it might be missing something but then I think not..... I wish that the motorhome was not in this shot...maybe that is what is making me second guess it.....

So, figured I would post it here and get your opinions!

[caleb]

slight desaturation and darkening for the background may help, especially separating the dog and white building

[ChowChi-Ching]

Thanks......after staring at it for a while, I decided to completely remove the stuff in the background and make it look like he was somewhere else..... do you think it helped?
It was a fairly fast edit, I will probably work on it with more detail and see what I can do too....

[ChowChi-Ching]

bumping this up just to see if there are any other opinions on it...... ;)

[jetrim]

I do like the second version better than the first, but I'm still not convinced it conveys the emotion of the moment (if that makes sense).

[Basil T]

I can see the potential but I don't think it has worked. My feeling is that it would have been better if the dog was a little more in focus so that there were three levels of sharpeness, the ball, the dog, the background. The dog seems to blur with the background a little too much and so you loose the stare at the ball.

[ChowChi-Ching]

okay - I will have to play with this shot again in the spring...... dog is too light to try this in the winter! lol I will try some of the suggestions and see what I can come up with