COMMENTS:

Kenneth Deitcher, MD. FPSA	A very interesting crop of an unusual subject. I like the textures in the fur and horn. The reversal of the image made the image graphically more interesting. I would like to see the eye brighter as it get's lost in the fur. The stroke high lights the picture.
Elaine Icklan	Very dynamic and interesting. Although the eye was lightened it could still stand some additional contrast. I agree the horn and hair are the two compelling parts of this image and your reversal was certainly the right technique to show them off.
Barbara Mallon	Who would have thought to take this photo! I would have prefer the horn on the left leading to the eye in the lower power point on the right. As presented, the area in the lower left is too dark and should be lightened. I think the image looks over-sharpened.
Tony Tam	If I did not see the original, I thought it is a unicorn. All you did tweaking works for the image is perfect , you much improved and created a very detailed close up image. It's clear shown on the horn and hair.
Carolyn Schlueter	Fantastic capture Tom! Love the way you have cropped it tighter and flipped it so the horn will be on the right. Border is great, but think I would either add hair or crop it a tad tighter and fill in the white part at the top and that would keep our attention on the horn and eye. Vignetting the edges will help too and you might want to burn the lights and darks to make it pop a tad more.
Adrienne Bergen	You did a great job taking a problematic image and making it something very unusual. The texture and detail in the hair makes me want to reach out and touch it. I can actually feel its coarseness with my eyes !! Changing the position so the horn was on the top right definitely enhances the image.

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Member Bio

Tom McCreary - Biography My wife, Carol, and I are retired and both enjoying our photo hobby. I have been taking photos since my college days, mostly slides at that time. I really fell in love with photography when I saw the "magic" of an image coming up in a B&W base hobby darkroom at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in the 1960's. As soon as I could, I set up my own darkroom, and when I married Carol, we combined our darkrooms. Three young kids took too much time and money, and we both kind of got out of the darkroom and serious photography. After the kids were grown, and we got back into photography, it seems like digital photography was taking over, and we started scanning slides or negatives and printing them on an inkjet printer. We never set up a darkroom again, and are now using an Epson printer -- light years better than the first inkjet printer that we had. I am a member of the Oklahoma Camera Club, and really enjoy the monthly competitions that we have -- both in prints and digital. I now use a Nikon digital camera and Photoshop to edit them. I think that taking slides helped me in my photography, because as you know, what you originally captured is what you had. Now, my digital capture at least usually gives me a good starting point to bring into Photoshop. I am having fun at trying new things in creative EID.