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Story Sequences Moderator and Wildlife Moderator
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Love it! The light adds to the feeling of the location. My only thought towards improving an already excellent image might be to darken the top 1/4. It tends to lead my eyes toward the out of focus tail.
Douglas Bolt
DougBoltPhotography.com
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Hi Gabriela - I looked at this earlier but wanted to look at it on my calibrated monitor when I got home. She does look relaxed. I really like the pose with the paw on the branch, the eye level pov and the curled tail. You handled the dappled light well. It looks like you had the ss to maybe even get a bit more dof. There's a very slight blue/cyan cast in some of the shadows so I would drop those slightly.
TFS,
Rachel
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Gabriela, great image, nice pose and well composed to include the tail. I think you handled the dappled harsh light well, agree with Rachel, i would drop the cyans and the blues a tad, it may be worth while to tone down the highlights and whites at towards her rump and along her tail.
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Wildlife Moderator
Hi Gabriela, a very, very nice image indeed. Love the stalking posture and that curved tail. I'm not sure if a little more space to the LHS & above may help, that's if you have the image content, perhaps worth exploring? Agree on the blue coming through on the whites, easily corrected. I think you just need to watch your highlights/exposure may need to drop it a fraction, or add a mid tone to help things overall. The dappled light is great and I think adding perhaps a small Graduate adjustment to the top RH corner/edge may help balance things too? adding a luminosity adjustment layer and adjusting that may also help the FG areas. Remember, by using adjustments & masks you can target key areas and not just globally apply.
I think with some subtle tweaks this will elevate the image to where it needs to be, VWD. 
TFS
Steve
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Lovely portrait.... I agree about with comments on blue cast and some space to LHS if you don't have easy enough to do with content aware etc ..
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Story Sequences Moderator and Wildlife Moderator
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Wildlife Moderator
This is why Gabriela, IMHO it's best to work on the whole image, retain the MASTER file as a PSD with ALL layers in tact, so you can revisit the image time & time again to make further refining adjustments, with multiple options on cropping too. It may create a larger file in the long run and you can always delete layers that are redundant later, but think about the time saving.
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Great advice given above. I actually like the OP crop and you handled the light very well. I would agree to darken highlights as a whole (particularly the white fur) through luminosity masking as it will add some depth to the cat as well.
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Story Sequences Moderator and Wildlife Moderator