Taken on the deck of my house, looking out toward the south. This is my dog Piper. She is a 3 year old Welsh Corgi and was amazingly cooperative in having here photo taken!
For the editing, I followed the steps in the November '06 issue of Popular Photography (p 43-44).
Cloned out lens flare
Cloned out small tree branch
Channel Mixer
Levels
Variations
Resize
Smart Sharpen
Save for Web
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A like the shot a lot. But would make a few changes.
I would crop the post to the right of the image, first off. It's a bit distracting.
As far as the B&W conversion goes, it is a bit flat. In levels or curves adjustments, you can jack up your whites and blacks a bit and will see a major improvement in the look of the shot.
Very nice portrait. I think a tigher crop might work . Maybe just cropping out the post on the right of the image. You have nice tones in the B/W and nice sharpness. Also a very nice bokeh effect with the background to eliminate distraction.
Very nice portrait. Getting in closer might improve it. The reflections in the eyes make them unclear. I found this to be a problem with my cat portrait as well.
6 - Nice composition and relaxed capture of Piper. Something odd going on in some of the darker areas, almost looks like gamma/contrast/something issues, likely as a result of the toning/pp. The eyes don't seem 'clear' - again could be the pp has accentuated that. Mostly though, Piper's right eye has a white mark over the bottom of it, so trying to fix that in this Advanced Editing Challenge would have helped you.
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