Lightroom Slight rotate (by that I mean I flipped it over)
Slight crop
Clarity +62
Fill light +15
Zeroed preset
Photoshop Cloned out a bit of a neighboring bat and a branch
Masked everything but the bat, Topaz Denoise on background
Topaz Denoise on bat
Adjusted Levels (8, 1.26, 234)
Burned shadows on lower grate
Dodged the top background green grate to bring it back out of the shadows to carry the eye through
Dodged and burned the bat a little
Added vignette
Boosted yellows and greens in Hue/Sat
Resized
Sharpened bat nose and feet along with the lower grate
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Statistics
Place: 199 out of 419 Avg (all users): 5.6923 Avg (commenters): 7.4286 Avg (participants): 5.7364 Avg (non-participants): 5.5455 Views since voting: 801 Views during voting: 245 Votes: 143 Comments: 10 Favorites: 0
First Impressions Ah, look at that. You know I liked this and gave it a 7 during voting. First impressions, as best I recall, were: what is going on here.. where, what, how. Nice movement capture and the lighting really took this image to another level.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review Reading your Photographer's Comments: "Slight rotate (by that I mean I flipped it over) " - funny - so he was upside down, ahh, it all makes a little more sense now.
Composition wise, I think the composition is strong and well placed, I like that you've flipped it and it does kind of go with your unique title. I really like the profile of his/her face and the lighting on it and the way that has caught the eye. The minor distractions in the rear, perhaps cloning out. Maybe, maybe a slight rotate to get the fore bar 'straight', but depends of course if you had the room to work with.
Comments, Score & Placement Review 199/419, tough one - I'm guessing you know this is a slightly 'out there' image, so would likely have never placed too high. It is disappointing, and I'm making a presumption, that most didn't stop to linger and appreciate what they were looking at. Which you certainly don't see often. A score of 5.69 - hm, a little low perhaps, but again, for a semi out of the box kind of image, that is probably pretty good.
Your commenters: all really liked it, hence your 7.42 score on average from them. No 'improvement' feedback - but it is tough with an image like this.
Summary It's unique - I wonder about a print of this on a wall - but he/she would then need a name. That's just my warped mind. And what is he looking at... (don't answer, that's part of the interest in the image).
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