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Hi Sanjeev - I like the intense stare. Dof and sharpness look good. Overall the image looks a little cool but that may have been the conditions at the time. Still, if it were mine I would drop the blues a fair amount at least on the leopard.
TFS,
Rachel
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Hi Sanjeev, very nice indeed. my only change would be the removal of the bright green spot above the head, grass blade in front of the chest and soften the highlight streak near the eyebrows.
TFS
Steve
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Hi Sanjeev -- You keep killing it with these leopard images; keep 'em coming! Rachel and Steve have covered the tweaks I would have suggested making; nothing to add. Great work!
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I'm just a tyro with little right to critique such a fine, sharp image, but i can't resist sharing this I learned from Richard Lynch (The Adobe Photoshop Layer Book).
I tried it on Sanjeev's image and the result was impressive:
PS > layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels
Now cut off the 'noise' tails in this order: Red, Green, Blue
Then click on RGB and adjust the gray pointer for brightness, etc.
I use this on most of my images nowadays. It's fast and about 90% effective.
Sanjeeve, thanks for a gorgeous image.
~jess
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Thank you folks for your kind words! Really encouraging. I did reduce the blues and cyan quiet a bit already. But the leopard was in shade in the morning hence the effect as guess. I could reduce more. Steve, Andreas, I will tame those highlights. Cheers
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Love the stare and those whiskers!
Some good suggestions above on removing some blue in the cat and toning down some bright spots in the BG...
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Well seen and delivered again Sanjeev, like the reed habitat, nothing much more to add than what's already been discussed.
TFS
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Andreas Liedmann
TFS Andreas
Jess - a very neat and ´new ´PS trick you come up with ...... but what are you doing with the color shift that you introduce if you not change something else ?

Vielen dank, Andreas, but it is not my PS trick; it is all nach Richard Lynch. Of course, the purpose is to eliminate any color shifts and to avoid any new ones. Lynch recommends not looking at the image while one is processing the R, G, and B layers. After the processing, I think it is a good idea to examine the image and then re-process if necessary. As the great Eindhoven (father of the EKG) said, "Die Methode ist Alles."
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Jess a way better tool for that purpose .... is the curve adjustment .... a lot more precise that the levels !!! Just my take .Set the layer to luminosity blend mode to avoid color shifts .
I work on a high end screen , calibrated once a month , and i do not trust my eyes when it it comes to color , as i am human and i might see color different from time to time , or i might see what i want to see
, for me only the eyedropper works if i want to have trustful colors .
Very interesting that most of the noise is in the tails of the histogram , never heard of it before , but i am open to learn new stuff . BTW had a quick look about that levels thingie from D. Lynch on mr google .... pretty old stuff from my POV, he is referring to PS CS 4 .... man that is ages ago .....
I tend to avoid that clipping of channels ... but we all work differently
Thanks for the additional info
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[QUOTE=Andreas Liedmann;1097568]Jess a way better tool for that purpose .... is the curve adjustment ....
And thank you, Andreas. I shall look into the curve adjustment method. BTW, the nice part of levels adjustment is that it can work pretty well without looking at the image. I say nice because I use an old Dell monitor. Some of the time, levels adjustment does not work for me -- only about 90% of my images show any improvement from it.
I'll try curve adjustment on those.
Thanks, Moderator, for letting me waffle.... ~jess
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Hi Sanjeev -- Nothing more to add , already covered abv , i loved this portrait for its sharpness and details . TFS !
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