- applied a little shadow recovery to bring back detail on the dog
- usm both for sharpness and local contrast
- originally went with desat and looked for a good b&w contrast, then brought the colors back and played with hue until I liked it
- added border
- resized and sharpened
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The title made me think of the song with the same name, LOL!
A girl and her best friend, a black dog, a very hard to capture on film or digital black animal. I know, there are 4 black horses at the barn and 2 black cats in my home and it's pure luck when I get a good shot of them, LOL!
I like the idea but it's not really about friends or pets and their owners, it's more the pets themselves. The back lighting is a bit too much, just a slight smudgen too much, causing the dark dog to look even darker with no real defining feature. Cut the girl out, play with the levels and you got a contender there! As is a 6