A red squirrel tucking into hazlenuts. This shot was taken at Whinfell Forest near Penrith. This is a conservation area for red squirrels, hence the provision of food. The numbers are closely monitored as the species is at risk due to the inroduction of the grey squirrel.
The shot is not great quality as it was taken with the digital zoom without a tripod.

*First of all I cropped the image to place the squirrel further to the bottom left which is a powerful place in a composition.

*Tweaked the contrast just a tad with the curves graph

*Finally I sharpened with Smart Sharpen 100% on 0.5 pixels. I did this on a new layer and then used the eraser tool on the greenery which had digital noise that doesn't respond well to sharpening.

Hope you like it.

Kath