Spot on the bed

Nikon D3200
55-200 AF-S VR @190MM
ISO3200 (indoors, normal overhead light)
1/10th (HANDHELD!)
f5.6
manual focus and exposure

This is Spot, my cat. She is 15 years old and is not feeling well today. I took the opportunity to grab a picture of her.

What do you think of the exposure and focus, and composition?

I am working toward complete manual when possible, and could use some opinions of progress.

Ah, poor thing, it looks sad...

Nice shot that could be improved if you'd remove the yellowish-red colour cast and could have been improved even more if the cat's ear hadn't been cut off.

Does look sad.I hope she gets well.

I made a couple small changes with contrast and colors. I hope I didn't offend you.

None taken.
What am I missing as far as the tone goes?
I am new to anything resembling an attempt at photography and I saw the original as true to the color in the room at the time, so what do I need to look for to know I need to adjust it?

I've always thought of PS editing to be the same as painting, you take a image to your liking. And adjust to what you think it should be. Everybody sees things differently.Do you have any photo shop type software?

Yes, I have Lightroom and Photoshop. I ran this through lightroom, and all I did was compensate for the lens and bump the exposure just a tad. I am still learning how to do things in there without it being overly obvious that I did something.

I have to get lightroom. I've heard a lot about it. What I normally do is let photoshop auto correct my picture.Then tweak it from there. Unless I already have a idea on how I want the picture to look.

wlhyatt said:

None taken.
What am I missing as far as the tone goes?
I am new to anything resembling an attempt at photography and I saw the original as true to the color in the room at the time, so what do I need to look for to know I need to adjust it?

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What white balance was the camera set to when you took it? It really depends, a lot of times you want the whites to look white, if you have a really warm light in your room, making everything yellow or orange, and you want to leave the picture that way, that it is up to you, but also "fixing" it so that the white is actually white might make it look better.

But also doing the opposite might make it more interesting, when i took this picture the sky did have an orange tint, but the road was still being "correctly" rendered a grey road-like color, but I wanted to make the whole picture warm on purpose to get that sunrise feeling

I am so glad the spot....turned out to be a cat.....

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White balance was the only thing that was set to Auto.

Nice job hand held. Good lookin' kitty.