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09/03/2007 01:52:01 PM			 | 
		
		Hay Ev,
 
 Great shot, excellent focus.  Sel. Desat. a little distracting but still a fantastic shot. Congrats on the clocking another 6!!
 
 Sam
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06/26/2007 04:52:49 PM			 | 
		
		| great and awesome shot!!!! |  
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05/11/2007 03:20:12 PM			 | 
		
		Greetings from the Critique Club -
 
 Congrats on a 6+ score in the FS. Always good to be above that benchmark.
 
 I love good pics of big cats. But personally you lost me with the selective desat. You caught good focus, a decent pose, and pretty nice detail. But the desat really took away from the impact this image could have had. Either full black and white with a bit of dodging and burning to bring out the contrast of the fur or full color with saturation tweaked up a bit and then burned for contrast could have made this image pop more and easily score higher. You have a great strong animal here yet with the soft pink and baby blue being the colors showing it just leaves the wrong feel. I tend to hyper process alot of my big cat pics and I could see me going to town on this one so please take my comment with that into consideration. 
 
 Again - nice general pic, good score (and a new image in your top rated pics is always a good thing). I would love to be shooting where you are. Good luck in future challenges!
 
 Tim |  
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05/07/2007 11:21:46 PM			 | 
		
		| I'm not a big fan of selective desat techniques but every once in awhile a nice one like this comes along! |  
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05/07/2007 09:06:46 PM			 | 
		
		| Very pretty, I love the nose & eyes. |  
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05/05/2007 12:39:22 PM			 | 
		
		| Beautiful image, but, IMVHO, the selective colouring sort of kills it.  ~7 (9 all b/w) |  
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05/04/2007 01:32:43 PM			 | 
		
		| Great photo, but I find the pink nose very distracting from an incredible picture. |  
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05/04/2007 12:53:38 PM			 | 
		
		| Beautifull shot, nice selective saturaion. I would love to see it without the selective saturationo too. |  
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05/03/2007 01:41:15 PM			 | 
		
		| This is a beautiful portrait of a beautiful beast. For me (and these are really only my thoughts and not criticism) I would have preferred just to have the eyes in colour. The red nose distracts from the beauty of the rest of the face. |  
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05/01/2007 07:58:39 PM			 | 
		
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