Taken at the Granby Zoo, it's the second year that they open during the winter season.
The tigers were really active.
Processing steps :
Crop
Auto levels
Auto colors
Selected and brighten the eyes
Smart sharpening
Duplicate layer
Change layer to B&W using red channel
Merge the two layers using multiply
Lots of dodge and burn
Ajusted saturation
Smart sharpening again
Selected nose and tongue
Adjusted colors
Save for web
Reopened in PS
Smart sharpening again
Added border
Save for web final
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A well imagined, captured and presented example of this now tiresome genre. Don't worry, I gave it a good score, but it's getting harder and harder to score tigers highly.