Taken 1-24-04 in Idaho. Edited in PS8.
cropped
levels
magnetic lasso to create Ram layer.
gaussian blur to background 2.5 pixels
lessen saturation to background 28%
curves to Ram
color balance to Ram
unsharp mask to Ram, amount 261%
radius .5
threshold 3
total time to edit 3 hrs
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Such a shame that the snow burned out so much. Very difficult shot to get away with unless you meter from the right place. I guess you metered from the animal. If you can with your camera - thiswould have been one of those to use grey card on. Of course if yours is fully automatic then that would be impossible and in that case cropping it differently would help eliminate the problem but still leave some snow. If you want - I will email you a jpg of how I would crop it.
I like the composition the way the sheep is "caught" between the snow and the gray branches. The light is a bit flat, the sheep blends into the background a bit much. What would happen if you played with the contrast a bit? The snow is already a bit bright, I'd selectively exclude that from any changes.
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