Confined
by jerowe

Comment by Jutilda:
You must've taken this shot JUST FOR ME! Love it. 8

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by roz:
wow ...
great composition ... and the softness on the lighter animals (i'm saying animals coz i'm not exactly sure wot they are!) is lovely and delicate ... its a shame that the animal of the bovine variety, who is predominately black, lost his/her detail ... =8

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by SaraR:
There is something unnaturally smooth about this - all detail of texture has been stripped.

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by Germaine:
Nice colors and subject matter, but it looks like you've gone way too far with the noise reduction.

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by LanceW:
Wow, this could be the poster picture for what not to do with neatimage. Yikes, waaaay too overboard on the noise reduction.

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by RolandB:
I like the processing, but the outline around the critters is very distracting. I'm struggling with this too.

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by Makka:
It's a great photo but it looks way over sharpened! Good luck!

Leader of the Pack
by jerowe

Comment by Baron152:
Sorry but it appears to be too much sharpening. The halos seem to give it away

Windows to the Soul
by jerowe

Comment by botticcelli:
i think is a stunning work...congrats!10

Windows to the Soul
by jerowe

Comment by hdogg4u:
Compostion Γ’€“ I am just not comfortable with this composition. I am not sure if itΓ’€™s the crop that throwing me off. I think maybe placing the whole head in the shot would have changed his look even if the head was on an angle.

Technical & Set-Up Γ’€“ From reading your comments the setup and lighting looks good and your methods of creating something different from the norm by creating a semi-wet look is excellent. This also shows in the comments from the other members and a lot of them liked the wet look. Looking at the rest of portfolio you have a good understanding of you camera and your technique is very sound.

Post Processing- Overall the processing has been done good as there is good clarity and your view of getting his eyes to attraction to the photograph is one spot. As soon as I looked at the photograph the first thing that drew me in was her eyes.

Opinion Γ’€“ This image fits and works very well for this challenge. You have just a beautiful lab and you have managed to capture that with excellent clarity. My biggest change in this photograph would have been the composition and this would have just been getting more of his head into the shot and not such a tight crop.

Hiral Patel