Cat Fight C&C

mehfesto2

I'm mostly looking for Post Processing critique here, but I'd love to hear any other suggestions comments you have on the pictures.

I processed them with both Painshop and Picnik. They were taken at the furthest reach of my70-300mm f/4-5.6 and yet both images are crops. (It took me an age to find out where the howls were coming from!)

Personally I feel #1 is too heavily contrasted and too 'orange', but is as sharp as I want it, whereas I think #2 is flat, but less 'in your face'. Any suggestions? Also, is the vignette subtle enough? I'm still getting to grips with where and when (and how) to use it.

#1


#2



Context:
The cat on the right is mine (Ted) and the white one is the one he bullies. Today was the first time he stood up to himself and my lad wasn't too impressed.

Thanks,
Sean

AnimalRights

#1 for me, the extra contrastie Orange adds to the viciousness.
As you said #2 is flattish and when it comes to violence flat = a no no.

Is there an original pic?

/edit
I must have drank extra strong Bulmers at lunch but of course #1 look's more aggressive, it's 2 diff pics and the white cat has his mouth open in it!

mehfesto2

AnimalRights wrote: »

#1 for me, the extra contrastie Orange adds to the viciousness.
As you said #2 is flattish and when it comes to violence flat = a no no.

Is there an original pic?

Not yet, I'll load it up to flickr now.

AnimalRights

I also edited b4 u replied!

mehfesto2

I'd actually deleted the original, but when I clicked back and entered the url it showed up in the preview post. I'll load another just in case in fails though.

AnimalRights

rofl pissing meself laughing, your last post is not showing the pic and by massive massive coincidence your post count is 404!!!!!!
Ye fecking gods so much funnier/better than that 733t one.

mehfesto2

AnimalRights wrote: »

/edit
I must have drank extra strong Bulmers at lunch but of course #1 look's more aggressive, it's 2 diff pics and the white cat has his mouth open in it!

I probably should have mentioned that! My mistake!

mehfesto2

AnimalRights wrote: »

rofl pissing meself laughing, your last post is not showing the pic and by massive massive coincidence your post count is 404!!!!!!
Ye fecking gods so much funnier/better than that 733t one.

This internet business is not my forté.

What are the chances though, eh?!

AnimalRights

It's a bit like Ronaldo not diving when someone almost touches him tbh....
Ok bed now back in 90 mins.

mehfesto2

Here's the original anyway.

Dragan

Do you have Lightroom?

There is a great option in it called "temp", i reckon loading your first image into it and dropping that level would reduce the orange but keep the sharpness for you.

If you don't have it i can give it a shot for you later to show you what i mean?

mehfesto2

Cheers Dragan.

But isn't Lightroom just for RAW files?
I'm running low on disk-space here at home and I've no RAW editors/lightroom, so I'm shooting in .jpg until I get to college.

Is there any other way around it, or should I just get it right when I'm shooting next time?

rgiller

No it's not just for RAW files. You do a lot in Lightroom with jpegs, although probably more with RAW. But I shoot in jpeg and process it through Lightroom and there is a lot of scope there for tweaks and improvements