Optimize this! Help me show my afternoon visitor off to her best advantage!

[Mary Bull]

This afternoon I took this picture of a little cat that wanders the neighborhood and visits in my yard from time to time. Used RAW, with settings in P. Four feet away was about as close as she would allow me to approach.

This is the jpeg that LightZone made from the frame, downsized 50 per cent, but otherwise unmanipulated.

http://static.flickr.com/117/257812341_92a1395ffd.jpg

RAW files are available, if anyone would like to use them.

Mary

[Bev Sampson]

Mary, what a beautiful siamese cat. I hope it is not a stray but then he/she does not look to be undernourished and the coat is good. You have captured very realistic colors of a siamese. The blue in his/her eyes shows up nicely. If only you could have got down lower to take the picture so that you were more on a level with the cat and if you could have got it to look up by moving your hand up or waving a piece of string higher than it's head to show it's features and those beautiful blue eyes.

Bev

[Asher Kelman]

Great point!

No different than humans, a cat is made more important if you shoot on or below their level!

Asher

[Mary Bull]

Mary, what a beautiful siamese cat. I hope it is not a stray but then he/she does not look to be undernourished and the coat is good.
I think she has an owner who lives around here. She has been turning up every month or so since last spring. I am careful not to feed her or encourage her too much. My own two indoor cats are about all the responsibility I need.
You have captured very realistic colors of a siamese. The blue in his/her eyes shows up nicely. If only you could have got down lower to take the picture so that you were more on a level with the cat and if you could have got it to look up by moving your hand up or waving a piece of string higher than it's head to show it's features and those beautiful blue eyes.
I will keep those good points of advice in mind. She is very skittish of me. I was almost in the position of photographing an animal in the wild. Sort of like my dawn rabbit. Come to think of it, her flight distance was about the same number of feet between us as the bunny's.

I appreciate very much your comment, Bev, and Asher's below it, agreeing with you. It's exactly the sort of input I was looking for.

Now, would you crop it or make any other enhancements, if it were your pic?

Or, can it stand as is, and I should just make better friends with my little visitor, in order to shoot from an optimized angle?

Mary