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Image from Melbourne Zoo recently.
Comments please.

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Great capture

G'day John,
Aren't primates incredible creatures? The body language is so similar to our own, not that far removed are we eh? The big male is awesome...

Ajways tricky to get good eye detail with animals that have heavy brows (as in deep set eyes) so I think you've done well, good thoughtful pose, seems deep in thought... Tricky highlights in the fur too by the look of it... Much sharpening in PP? Fur seems a little bit "crunchy"...

Great catch...

I wonder if these animals get such an introspective and bored look on their faces when they are living in the wild? Perhaps they suffer some sort of stress from the absence of danger or the unexpected. Perhaps we doo too.

Pretty cruel leftover from earlier times keeping them in a zoo, I think.

Nevertheless a really commendable capture (shit, that's a poor word to use in the present context isn't it!!) Well done.

Cheers,

mudder wrote:Tricky highlights in the fur too by the look of it... Much sharpening in PP? Fur seems a little bit "crunchy"...

Great catch...

Thanks for the feedback Andrew, Glenn and Sheetshooter.

Andrew, I use nik SharpenerPro (add in for PS CS2). It sets all the parameters for sharpening according to output medium and size. Generally I'm very happy with it's selections. When sharpening for Internet viewing, it tends to over sharpen (IMO) and has made the fur crunchy. With it sharpening for fuji frontier printing, it does a great job. Maybe I should go back to usm for sharpening for forum viewing.

John,

If it works in similar fashion to Photo Kit Sharpener surely you could go back into the layers and make adjustments before you flatten the image.