What do you guys think?

[LeftCoast]

I was considering entering this in the contest this month. Honest opinions appreciated!

[JeffR]

1. Here's my honest opinion

D'OOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!

I'd been thinking about using this one:



But hadn't decided for sure. You've convinced me now to go with something else. I certainly can't compete with what you've got here.:o

[LeftCoast]

2. Hey...you know what they say about great minds!

Don't you just love the grins on both those dogs? They just love the waves!

For the record though, I took almost 650 photos today to get that one stand-out shot. :)

[JeffR]

4. It's a fine one

You're right, the joy of a dog running on a beach is, well, a joy to watch. And it's a bonus to capture the moment in a photograph.

[flamin lib]

8. Same suggestion as for Left . . .

Try croping the dog into the lower left quadrant like this:


You lose a lot of pixels, but this is a nice crisp shot and can survive it.

Just an opinion, and ya' know 'bout them--everbody has one & most folks think it smells . . .

[LeftCoast]

9. I like that crop

Great use of the 'rule of thirds'!

[JeffR]

14. Not seeing the image

but I think I know what you're getting at.

In any case, I've decided that "this dog won't hunt".

[flamin lib]

18. Don't make a decision in haste. nt

[JeffR]

21. No, that's from what I like to call cogitation

but others would call staring slack-jawed into space for excessive periods of time.

[intheflow]

15. Double D'OOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!

Here's one I was thinking of using!



Damn, now what am I going to use? :rofl:

[JeffR]

17. Dang. If the theme this month were "dogs running on beaches"

The three of us would kick some ass.:rofl:

[flamin lib]

20. Get them MFin' dogs on my MFin' Beach . . .

Sorry I couldn't resist.

[JeffR]

22. !

:spray:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear LeftCoast!

Oh, WOW!

This is perfect!

We might as well declare you the winner right now!

Just beautiful......thank you for sharing it! :hug:

[LeftCoast]

5. Thanks Peggy!

I'm sure there will be some major competition though. There are some awesome photographers on DU and I'm still pretty new at it.

:hi:

[flamin lib]

6. Really really nice.

I might crop to move the dog & reflection to the lower right hand corner a bit and flatten the histogram some but that's just personal taste.

[LeftCoast]

7. Thanks for the advice!

The only thing I've done to the picture at this point is to resize if from the original 4mb size! :)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. How about

this crop...



I think it makes it stronger, and I know you have the image size to do it better than this

[flamin lib]

11. Cool. I tend to get caught up in the classic rectangle format. I should

learn to think outside the box more often now that digital viewing has no real constraints.

[LeftCoast]

16. That's a good idea for a crop!

I just spent the last 1/2 hour trying to crop it and wasn't happy with the result. I think I'll give it a rest for tonight, but this gives me some more to think about. Many thanks!

[priller]

12. That's very nice!

As others have suggested, I might try cropping out the foregournd a bit. But I'm an inveterate cropper, it's usually the first thing I do when looking at my own images. These guys who try to never crop, who compose in-camera, I'm not anywhere near that point yet (not even sure it's that good of an idea, anyway).

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. well, it is a great goal, and it helps a lot

if you can do it.

It is lots better to crop out a little to improve a good image than take a poor image and crop it to make it usable.

[flamin lib]

19. Henri Cartier Bresson is turning in his grave. nt