High Key Wolf

[SleepingWolf]

interesting - you applied the change to the whole shot and not just the background. Did you try with a layermask and just the background - keeping the wolf as he is now?
somehow I think that might work better (least to my eye - but then to my eye I like the original too)

I see where you're going but no, I wanted the Bateman effect - which meant the whole photo.. not just extracting the wolf from its background.