This editing took me quite a while as I had to dodge out some branches in the face of the front deer. otherwise just saturated the dear desaturated the background and balanced the color just right. unsharp mask on the deer resize and save for web.
Very happy with the results hope you all like it.
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Nice subject and well done on the desat. Seems a little oversharpened and a touch heavy on NI. I love the "expression" on the back doe. :) Good luck in the challenge.
Has this been cropped from a much larger frame? It's certainly an appealing subject that I appreciate is difficult to capture. I think it would have improved it to crop it off centre perhaps to the left. Good luck
The transition between colored deer and B&W background is very harsh and there seems to be some haloing going on. Otherwise, I like the pic, especially the way they are framed by the branches.