The eyes have it!

After looking at my shortlist for the final 12 images I wanted to include a close u of a big cats face that I had seen earlier done by Frans Lanting which is the image below.



What I like about this picture is the way the eyes are staring at you which is something I wanted to re-create. For this I have decided to use my picture of a Sumartran Tiger I took in April in the South Lakes Wild animal park. I managed to get a shot of the tiger looking straight at me however I need to do a few adjustments to recreate the shot above. The 2 main things I want to do are.

1. Crop the photo (close in on the face)
2. Brighten the eyes

Firstly I cropped the photo till I was happy with the composition and have chosen A4 paper size for this. Next I decided to use the quick mask technique I used on the lion below. Firstly I zoomed in onto the eyes, then using a small brush masked the eyes out as shown below.

Once I had done this and selected the image I then inverted the selection so that it was the eyes only that will get adjusted. I then used the Brightness and contrast tool to adjust the eyes and just make them that bit brighter to stand out in the photo. as shown below.