In DPP: Crop, noise reduction, white balance adjustment, converted to three TIF files with different brightness adjustments.
In CS2: Shadows-Highlight Layer
Dark TIF (to darken blown-out leafs in the background)
Very bright TIF (with eye details)
Curves layer on the eye
Curves, hue-saturation (with eye masked out), levels layers
Dodge-burn layer
Flatten, lab sharpen, Gaussian blur layer
Resize, USM, border and save for web
Reminds me of “Alvin and the Chipmunks”...
[Oct. 20th, 2008 03:38:01 PM]
Oct 20 Funny thing is (given all the discussions in the score thread) - got a pic of this little guy at the zoo: while looking around for animals to do something interesting to shoot for the challenge.
So far Alvin is not doing that bad...
[Oct. 26th, 2008 10:42:00 PM]
Oct 26 – about an hour to go Wondering if I’ll get 200 votes and hoping for top 20 finish… anyway after 199 votes score is 6.3065 and 17 comments from great photographers!!! Thank you all!!!
Post-challenge Well – Alvin didn’t make the top 20 :-D – but still decent result.
Statistics
Place: 40 out of 159 Avg (all users): 6.3706 Avg (commenters): 8.1333 Avg (participants): 6.2055 Avg (non-participants): 6.4677 Views since voting: 1593 Views during voting: 379 Votes: 197 Comments: 18 Favorites: 2 (view)
Alvin is indeed quite adorable, and he fetched you a very nice score! I really appreciate you sharing the story and your editing details, though I'll admit I'm not entirely sure (OK, completely not sure) I could re-create what you did. I have no idea what lab sharpen is, nor how you blended the different tifs together. You should make a tutorial!
Tough to photograph this type of rodent in the wild. The brown usually blends into the surroundings. Not here though. Great lighting, DOF and exression.
Just beautiful! The word "serendipity" sprung to mind as soon as this image loaded. I looked up the meaning: serendipity - an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. 10
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