young cheetah at Chester ZOO

HP1485 (e2 Member)

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15 Jan 2010 - 12:36 AM

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Cute subject and nicely framed. The pelt of the cheetah could have been a little sharper and by making the background out of focus your subject would have more prominence. To really enhance animal portraits you should add some catchlight in the eyes - this is easily added using Photoshop.

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sooz2710

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15 Jan 2010 - 12:13 PM

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Have a look in the tutorial section - there's a really good one for changing hair colour using the lasso tool which I found very useful. If you use it go around the cheetah's head and then choose 'inverse selection' you can add blur (from the Filters menu) to everything except the cheetah. Well worth a try as it will throw your lovely subject into sharper relief. Don't forget, if you don't like the result you don't have to save it!
Lovely pic nonetheless, many thanks for sharing.

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Ian G W (e2 Member)

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15 Jan 2010 - 1:17 PM

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I think this image would have been better if the cheetah had eye contact with the camera. Taking the shot from a lower perspective (if it was possible) might have improved the chances of getting eye contact.

Ian.

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shawpaul

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15 Jan 2010 - 1:36 PM

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I agree with most said above but the wonders of the programmes we now have allow to cheat in so many ways, I have uploaded my change included are the eye's I believe make a difference, using the copy tool I placed circular dark brown copied areas (1 in both eyes and the did it again using the black colour in the shot, after which a clone of the top of the eyebrow hair brought over theeye edition helps to falsify it. I also increased the total saturation of the shots colour to give impact... Hope you like, regards Paul

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ptitcendrier

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16 Jan 2010 - 1:03 PM

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hello, sylvia
i thought i'd have a go with this one, as there were two things i would have liked to suggest. first, the colours were quite faded, and it is a pity, for the cheetah has such wonderful tones... i just increased a little the saturation and the contrast, in order to get brighter colors... as for the focus, it only took seconds to give it a little sharpen and then manually blur the background... i used acdsee, it has a tool for manual blur where you can select the nib width and then just applied it on the background, little by little.
hope you'll like it
wish you all the best

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