Morning light wabbit

[Meesh Fink]

A rabbit hopped in close in bright morning light. I like trying to work with backlighting, does it work for this image?

My own C&C is the nearest ear seems to be a titch out of the focus plane, so more DOF might have been helpful. There are some hot highlights, and I would have preferred to have taken the photo from a lower angle.

I used negative clarity on the BG and a little bit of vignette to darken the corners and highlight those ears.

7D + 400mm f/5.6 lens, 1/500, ISO 400, f/6.3, minor crop to 8x10

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Meesh Love this image !!!

Would go more vertical cropping from the back to accentuate the ears, also darken the corners to draw attention to center action :) .. excellent image !!

[Meesh Fink]

Hi Meesh Love this image !!!

Would go more vertical cropping from the back to accentuate the ears, also darken the corners to draw attention to center action :) .. excellent image !!

Thanks for the feedback, Alfred! :D

[Dave Mills]

Hi, You seem to give a pretty good self critique. Agree with Al regarding a crop from the right which will accentuate the ears and put more room in front of the rabbit. The backlighting is the strength of the image and works well. Finally, I would of added a bit more room to the top...

[Lance Peters]

Hi Meesh - love those backlit ears.
Would consider going much tighter - to really highlight the ears.
Personally would have preferred a bit of a head turn towards you.
Good show :)

[Meesh Fink]

Thank you, Dave and Lance. I re-cropped it to vertical and printed - looks very decent. :D