Lol, I know that I could have just put this in the other thread, but its dead, and I want CnC. Experimenting with Gradient maps and desaturation. Again tried to focus on good lighting. v1 Noborder Banner CnC First try is in my sig, compare.
In the one with the border, I dont think white looks very good. I think that the blurring on the elephant mixed with the strong source of light makes too strong of an effect, so that it almost hurts my eyes to look at it. You might want to try sharpening the prowler to bring it more to the front. I just dont like how my eye is drawn to the light at the front of the elephant, yet that area is blurred. Note that I dont have any experience with making signatures, but that is my opinion.
The prowler needs to be sharper so it sticks out a bit more from the image, there isn't enough depth and a strong lightsource mixed with a lot of blurring makes the image really flat and hard to focus on. Need to work on lighting, sharpening and blurring.