Groundhog

I like it. Only suggestion would be to consider cropping most of the ouf foreground. The foreground draws the eye away form the groundhog.

Great pose Jake and that low angle really rocks! I do understand Philip's comment about the OOF FG but feel that the resulting loss of virtual legspace would be just as bad, so I would leave it as is. Further it looks to me as if the image is not really sharp, but that could be merely an issue of sharpening the jpeg.

thanks for the comments and suggestion, here it is with some sharpening applied. Hope I did not over do it as I can now see some noise, should have taken the time to selectively sharpen just the groundhog.

The sharpening is a big improvement, but I think it is slightly too much... I would back off on the background and on the lighter colored hair of his torso, leaving the sharpening on the face, eye, mouth and hands. I like the colors and the action pose. Nice post!

Hi Jake,

I like the two-fisted approach this 'hog is taking to eating that blade of grass. I'm in agreement that the out-of-focus foreground doesn't really add to the image, but I think Vincent is right about the problems associated with cropping it out. Regarding the softness and sharpening: Yes, the re-post does look oversharpened - if you back that off a little bit and only sharpen the groundhog I think you'll be in great shape with this image...

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

The repost is a much improved version. I like the pose, great capture. Sharpness looks OK to me.