My father in laws German Shepherd " Anna " eagerly waiting someone to play with her. I took this while on our recent break to Melbourne over the Easter weekend. I guess to make it stand out I decided to go with some desat on this image. Had another idea for this challenge but time beat me. Out of about 15 images this one portrays her personality the best ! I'm sure they'd be proud to hang this on their wall !
Post Editing :
Resize for DPC
Selective desat
small adjust to levels
minor selective colour adjustments to toy
burning
USM
Add border
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Interesting idea, and well done. I don't think it will work to your favour in this challenge, as it detracts focus from your dog. This is my second time looking at thisshot, and the first where I actually even looking at him/her. Yet focus and details are sharp.
My feeling is that the use of selective desaturation here makes this more a photo of the toy than the dog. The dog seems to fade into the background a bit. I'd be interested to see what it looked like in colour.
I don't think this image is improved with selective desat. It makes the toy the focus of the image rather than the dog. Other than that, excellent POV and DOF.
Your choice of black and white was wise -- it helps lessen the distraction of the background. The dog is beautiful, there's light in his eyes, and he's nicely in focus. I can't figure out why you used selective desaturation here. It draws attention to the dog's toy rather than the main subject, the beautiful dog. I'm tired tonight, so hope this isn't coming across harshly -- I hope it is helpful feedback. :)
Nice post processing although leaving the eyes in original color could have been nice...a little too much dodge over nose as well, magnificent animal.....
I think this would have been so much more a classic portrait without the colored dog toy. This desat takes the emphasis off the dog and makes the plastic dog toy the subject of the photo.
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