RAW
- Adjust Levels
- Adjust White Balance
- Convert to TIF
Post-Processed with Paint Shop Pro X
Rotate left 19
Crop
Photo Fix (B/W points)
Color Balance (4500)
Select Mouth - layer
- Dodge/Burn/Soften brush on teeth
- opacity to 48%
Select Eye whites - layer
- Brightness & Contrast : HMS(-30,100,100)
- Clone to fix bloodshot left eye
- Dodge/Soften brush
- opacity to 30%
Select left Eye pupil - layer
- Burn/Soften brush to diminish second catchlight
Select backdrop color with magic wand - layer
- levels
- opacity to 59%
Invert selection to isolate person - layer
Duplicate person layer
Person layer #1
- reverse feather edge +5 on one person layer
Merge Person layers into 1
Resize all layers
Person layer
- USM (.75,100,15) +luminance
Mouth and left Eye pupil layers
- USM (.75,100,15) +luminance
Merge all layers
Duplicate BG layer
- Soften brush on outside edges of person
- Dodge/Soften brush on dark spot under right eye
- USM (.75,50,10) +luminance
- opacity 42%
Merge all layers
Save as JPG
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The pose is good, pretty natural looking. The two different skin tones between the hand and the face are a bit distracting. I see you didn't use studio flash here but I would have still tried to go for a much higher shutter speed to avoid the slight blur in the image.
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