Good Morning

The composition is good and the focus on the eyes is where it should be. There is something about the texture of the hide of the animal that doesn't appear right. I don't know the cause and and don't have a remedy.

Richard, you may be seeing artifacts left over from my attempt to clone out several stems of vegetation. Because of the texture of the hair, it was difficult to get something to be a perfect match in regards the grain of the hairs so to speak. I'm still learning how to do this. Good eyes.

The comp works very well for me Peter and I really like that look back pose and those huge shiny dark eyes. The low shooting angle is also a good point. The only thing that I find a bit distracting is the bright lit grasses in the BG. I would suggest to tone down their brightness and saturation a tad. Particularly the larger version seem to have a poor IQ. The doe looks rather soft and there seems to be some kind of pixelation going on. Perhaps something went wrong with creating a jpeg for the web?

There might be an issue with the conversion to JPEG. I'm following the instructions provided by Darwin Wiggett but there are some differences in my version of PSE9 which I thought I had worked around. I agree about the light behind. I have a nice image of her head in that light when she turned her head around to look straight ahead and it is nice, but I thought this image was more compelling. Thanks for the comments.

I love the pose of the deer here and the comp of the image. The shot has a nice intimacy too: the deer seems to be looking right at us. I'm fine with the brightness behind the head. However, I did notice that the texture of the body seemed different. I only considered that it might be a result of post processing though when I magnified it and discovered some irregular dark bordered blotches. Some textures are so difficult to seamlessly repair. Generally, for that reason and because of concern for showing as accurate a texture as possible, I try to avoid creating animal (or bird) pixels and tolerate the odd misplaced vegetation. For example, in this case, I'm now more uncertain as to what the true texture of the animal's skin really is. If the repaired texture was in the bg it would not be of as much importance.