Put the kitty (Lea) in the box, took a few shots. One AB400 shot through a white umbrella up above somewhere. Shot at 22mm.
Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance, exposure, recovery
PS:
Rotate
Crop
Curves (Acid)
Selective Color (blackened up the whites)
Black and White (for desat)
Dodge, burn, clone here and there
Resize
USM (70/.7/0)
Save for web
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Place: 49 out of 95 Avg (all users): 5.6825 Avg (commenters): 7.5000 Avg (participants): 5.5185 Avg (non-participants): 5.7481 Views since voting: 964 Views during voting: 374 Votes: 189 Comments: 12 Favorites: 1 (view)
Color Saturation and Hue: Colors are good, Saturation is very good, and Hues appear accurate for the subject.
Brightness and contrast: Brightness and contrast are excellent. Whites are white. Shadows have good detail, and even the white fur holds the detail well in all but the brightest highlighted areas.
Focus and depth of field: Focus is excellent, as is depth of field. Detail is apparent from the top of the box to the bottom.
Sharpness appears a little over processed as evidenced by a little bit of the jaggies in the thinner section of the cat's whiskers. However this could also be an artifact of resizing.
You did a nice job on the lighting. The catch-lights in the cat's eyes are done very well. And of course the cat has the standard "are you about done?", look that most cats get when we want them to do something for us.
The box shape makes it so that the cat is centered left to right, which may have hurt your score somewhat with the technical purisits. Challenge purists would have voted slightly lower also, as the cat is the subject, rather than the box.
First, lovely kitty! Second, really LOVE the vertical composition to this and the dark to light tones of the box. Everything blends beautifully - even the color of the cat. You could almost miss that tongue - it blends so well with his coloration.
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