This is an exquiste pet portrait but I'm not seeing high contrast. It's mostly mid tones. The lighting is perfect and the detail - awesome but it just doesn't meet the criteria to my eye. In a black and white or pet portrait challenge - 10.
nice picture, well shot and nice tones. Unfortunately, pretty much all midtones and almost no darks and highlights. Think you are gonna get some dnmc's on this. Good luck.