A couple of things that might help:
1. Generally speaking - almost all shots coming out of a DSLR will do better with a little sharpening. Its just the nature of the beast. It seems the darn AA filter, quantization caused by limited number of pixels - all result in some loss of sharpness. I...
Excellent shot - great combination of city lights and natural lighting. On the image side - Photoshot or other - did you have to do anything special?
Thanks for posting
Hope you don't mind -
Maybe this bw is OK?
original
color
I took the color one - adjusted the curves quite a bit to bring back a little more of the shadows on the pair, then converted to bw with just the channel mixer, then raised the contrast again. Also, as you can see I took...
I am always surprised about preferring color shots over bw - as in this case. But I think that part of the beauty of your picture is enhanced by the contrast between the pair (cat and giraffe) and the background. This contrast is a quite diminished on the b/w version.
If its possible for you to...