Black Lab Old Man Face magically transformed in CS5

FINAL EDIT. Curves and sharpening are key!

This was shot with a 24-70mm lens and edited in CS5 from a camera raw file. It's pretty amazing how a raw file that's under exposed and almost not worthy to edit can be magically transformed in Photoshop to a beautiful work of art. I try to carefully edit as little as possible on each image to be as efficient as I can and I believe any unique photograph of a pet that is properly exposed(sometimes) and creatively edited(most times) is indeed a work of art. I'm referring to all pet photogs out there!