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[PNA]

Stern and alert......

 

[Traxtor]

Nice, like the PP but I think it should have been a bit darker. The dog that is.

 

[noescape]

Beautiful dog! Do you mind if I take a stab at a little PP?

 

[PNA]

Beautiful dog! Do you mind if I take a stab at a little PP?

Please.....only if you tell me what you did and post the results.

Thanks for looking, I'm very proud of him.

 

[The_Saint]

Boosted contrast.
Sharpness filter.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

That's quite an improvement

 

[PNA]

Boosted contrast.
Sharpness filter.

Nicely done....I like it. Wish I had the talent to see and make the adjustments.

That's quite an improvement

Yep!

 

[noescape]

Sure thing.

First I re-painted the background with black... to smooth out the patchy places. Then I bumped the brightness and contrast... I sharpened it a bit... Desaturated the overly blue or yellow areas... Saturated the eyes a little... Burnt it a LOT... Dodged a little... Also used a sharpen filter when I was done. I don't know how to describe everything, really... Let me know what you think.

Wow the sharpening is way over-done... Gahhh

 

[THORHAMMER]

Nice Dog, very contemplative !

I have bad dreams about shooting pics somewhere im not supposed to be, and seeing one of these running up..

If you see a guy with track shoes on and a tripod @ 1 in the morning near an industrial area, please don't release the hounds !!!

 

[PNA]

My effort compared to both you and The Saint looks flat, washed out and overall blah.....

Thanks for the steps.

 

[noescape]

Awww.. Come on- now you know what a beautiful picture you took!!!

 

[Lyncca]

Nice Dog, very contemplative !

I have bad dreams about shooting pics somewhere im not supposed to be, and seeing one of these running up..

If you see a guy with track shoes on and a tripod @ 1 in the morning near an industrial area, please don't release the hounds !!!

While boxers will protect their family (or in my case just put on a big show), they aren't meant to be "guard dogs." Boxers are actually very sweet and silly (they are known as the peter-pan of dogs), they just look big and bad!

This is a great pic after all the post processing! My two are floppy instead of cropped.

 

[manaheim]

My remaining concern with the shot is the edges of him look kind of noticablely painted or maybe an overzealous wand-select?

Maybe a different kind of selection with some feathering to make it less noticable?

Also, there's this neat trick you can do when you take the exposure... I managed to pull it off once by accident, so I'm not TOTALLY sure how I did it, but it was a very fast exposure with very bright light on the subject and the background less well lit... I -think- it was also a very wide aperature. The result was a nearly black background- add a bit of contrast, and poof.

Neat shot- wish I still had it... it was from my film days. (also part of why I'm not TOTALLY sure how I did it.)