Love to see you experimenting, Haseeb - I have not done that in a while Curious whether you took this image with intention to create a certain emotion in the viewer, or the RAW simply lent itself to this high key approach?

What I like about this image is the ghostly appearance of the Macaque and strong emphasis on the eyes, love the eye contact. Happy with the space on the LHS, composition works well for me... but I would add some canvas at the top.

Would also go back on the sharpening on the upper part of the subject's head so everything gradually fades with the exception of the eyes. Also, you can render more tones and shades from this image, the range is there.

Mmmmm....wonder what happened if you shot this at F5 or even less, maybe F4, FP right between the eyes, let everything else fade, naturally?

A pleasure to view, as always, thank you so much for sharing,

Kind regards,