Isaac's hand, feather, Legos in the BG; diffuse sunlight through a window; macro mode, handheld; auto-focus and auto-exposure.
Tone curve, grayscale, crop, USM applied twice with settings of 88%/.08dia/TH=5; JPEG=10/10.
Shallow DOF helps obscure distracting BG, also partly why I went grayscale -- the color blocks were a bit TOO distracting, although a nice contrast with the other flat planes of color. There was also some color fringing in the shadowed area on the right.
With the good focus on the skin I hope people interpret the blurriness of the feather to be motion blur, and not just OOF or camera shake.
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Seeing the texture of the feather, or having some of the "threads" of the feather separated would help I think. As it is the feather seems rather flat and doesn't add "ticklish" to the photo.
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