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If I was starting over, I think I would use my crop but leave the branches unless you are a world class cloner. The problem is you don't have enough background to use for cloning. Instead I would maybe blur the branches and adjust the brightness to make them less obtrusive.
As far as processing, I think Kents is way too light for the setting. I used shadow highlight to bring out some added contrast and just a bit of saturation, I then desaturated green. I used the dodge too to darken some of the bright spots, but perhaps not enough. Of yes, I ran some Topaz noise. That would work a lot better on a full size raw.
If I had the skill, I would make copy of the deer and save it on a layer so I could work the background alone and then replace the deer. But I could never do that without a witness or unnatural edges..
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