Lighting is quite harsh and it looks a bit overexposed to me with some small hot spots. Also the image appears to suffer from soft focus (subject movement?) and too narrow DOF. I think a bit less exposure with a smaller aperature could have benefited the image. Would be very curious to see your exposure settings.
I appreciate the effort this takes, people and animals ar beyound me for now. But I think that this image needed a lot of post to get it to this state which, though i Could easily be wrong....It just is not as crisp and natural looking as I would like it to be.
The fur has so much depth and feeling to it. It looks like the fur directly around the face is so thick and velvetty soft, reminds me of the fur on a stuffed animal. It's gorgeous!
that's a great shot the thing with these I think is that people think you take them in a zoo which probably doesnn't give a high enough score which is a shame super lighting and focus and comp...10
Good definition in the fur and quite good blurring of the background so we can focus on the face. Wish you could have gotten a catchlight in the eye, but still, a very nice image.