Raw adjustments in RSE: color temp, tint, shadow contrast, sharpness, detail extraction.
Converted to JPEG and adjusted in PS: levels, curves, brightness/contrast. Cloned a few lines to clean them up. Resized.
Neat Image.
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Place: 190 out of 263 Avg (all users): 4.6235 Avg (commenters): 5.1667 Avg (participants): 4.7333 Avg (non-participants): 4.5636 Views since voting: 800 Views during voting: 319 Votes: 255 Comments: 9 Favorites: 0
Trading Post - You easily met the challenge here, but I think the softness of focus is what really hurt you. An interesting setup and combo of items, a bit od burning to make your blacks darker may have also helped make both of your subjects pop out a bit more.
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Very interesting setup. I think the lion head is OOF in someway though. Other than more sharpening or maybe a different lighting, I don't know what to suggest. I've tried a few times to work in raw, but can't seem to get the hang of it.
I like the quietness of this. Meets the challenge well, but I suspect the low vote is due to the lack of crisp focus on the lion's head. Composition seems just a bit off-balance, but in looking at it, I'm not sure what to suggest to change it. I wouldn't crop off the left - I like that space there, but maybe had the umbrella been angled a bit more into the bottom of the picture? Not sure.
I would have experimented with making the blacks a little blacker, and maybe altering the angle of the brolly to bring it closer to the bottom left corner. and maybe going quater-face with the lion.
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