Baby Spotted Leopard - There was two of these little guys and we actually got to hold both of them. They were just like big domestic cats as far as attitude. One thing that I wasn't expecting was the texture of their fur. Their spots are a different coarseness than the rest, so you can actually feel their spots.
Lightroom Bumped exposure a tad
Reduced Black Clipping
Photoshop CS5 Topaz Denoise
Topaz Adjust
Dodged kitty's white fur
Selective color to take some yellow out of the reds
Selective color to increase blacks
Resize
Sharpen
Resize
Sharpening tool on face and ear
Last minute cloning to take out a thumb in the lower right and a distracting zipper on the upper left pink jacket. Also cloned out a tiny bit of text on the black jacket.
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Came back and threw in some cyan to chill the magenta.
Saved again!
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Many photos can make you Oooh and Aaaaah at the cuteness. But only few can make you FEEL the photo. That is what this photo does for me. I don't just see, but FEEL the tenderness of the moment, and it is powerful.
Fantastic job! 10 (and the only one I have given so far)
This is a really well done shot and I think will do quite well. My only complaint would be that I find the brighter colors on the left and in the bottle distracting from the main subject. I like the way you were able to focus on the eye and really bring out the reflections and emotion in it while giving a soft fuzzy OOF feel to the fur.
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