Saw this dog sitting in a car. Thought he might be ready to take it for a drive :)
For pamb: the editing is a mix of Color Efex and Topaz Clean. I used Color Efex to enhance the lighting and darken the area around the dog, also to create the colortone. Then after a resize, I used Topaz Clean to bring out some details because the dog was a little soft and that was bugging me. That's why he now looks like crumpled paper lol.
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****EDit to Add that this WAS taken for what I thought would be my 2012 photo-a-day project. But that failed so I am moving it to this new "looking back" side challenge (12/1/12)****
Great use of light and shadow to focus our attention on this wonderful dog. I like the presentation very much. Looks like he could drive, if he could reach the pedals.
It actually took me a while to notice the texture. This is such a neat shot! The colors are lovely, and the framing is excellent. I'd be curious to see the original, before it was edited.
I really like this - how did you achieve this look? The really bright white thing hanging from the rear view mirror and the dark shadow on the top of the dog's head are a little distracting but obviously you couldn't do anything about that :) I really like the processing on this - did I mention that already? - and love the 'capture' too.