Canon 40D, manual, 1/160@ f/8, ISO 400, 70-200 + 2x ext, flash

Canon 40D, manual, 1/160@ f/8, ISO 400, 70-200 + 2x ext, flash
Hi Joel,
I like the texture and color of the leaves and also the detail in the fur. The eyes look a little funky though. Seems like with all the light from the flash there should be a bit of catchlight inat least the big eye.
Steve

It had a bad case of red-eye on the right, which I fixed. But I don't now how to manufacture a higlight. Any ideas?
Last edited by Steve Canuel; 02-25-2008 at 11:19 PM. Reason: Added pic

Tha looks a lot better, but extra catchlights I often remove are angular. Wish I knew how to make them.
Joel,
Go to 100% magnification on the eye and us the dodge tool. Work at the pixel level and don't make it a circle of oval as that looks fake IMO. The head looks OOF. Did you sharpen it enough.
Good idea to eleminate the red eye but we really needed a catchlight in the voles eye and to see the nose. Good detail but it seems to be a bit backfocused..

Select the Dodge tool or the Burn tool . (I selected the Dodge tool)
Choose a brush tip and set brush options in the options bar. (took what was already set)
In the options bar, select one of the following:
Midtones to change the middle range of grays
Shadows to change the dark areas
Highlights to change the light areas (failed to select any)
Specify the exposure for the Dodge tool or the Burn tool. (didn't see where to do that)
(Photoshop) Click the airbrush button to use the brush as an airbrush. Alternatively, select the Airbrush option in the Brushes palette. (Didn't get to that)
Drag over the part of the image you want to lighten or darken. (I dragged over the now pitch-black eye on a copy of my PSD file and got no result. No mark, nothing)
Robert, I only had about 10 minutes to try this today. Will look at it again when I have time, probably tomorrow.)
Thanks much for help.\-J