Her name is Daphne. Very nice lady. Here are my processing steps, for i am in a hurry to enter this for i will not get a chance to after i get off work and before rollover:
raw convert
healing bruth, patch tool, cloning all over (mainly small blemishes and stray hairs)
imagenomic noiseware ran in portrait mode
black and white conversion via channel mixer
cropped
added border
more patch tool cloning for stray hairs and fix some imperfections in the background. wasn't even.
added border via canvas size
resize
smart sharpen
save for web
done :D
hope you enjoy, i expect a 6+ at least out of this...hopefully. that means it'll probably bomb.:D
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Not really getting Ashamed out of this. I ignore titles when voting anyway.
Nice image, excellent tone. Is she wearing a wig, or is it "two-toned hair".
the lighting on her face looks a little flat, which I'm guessing comes from trying to minimize some blown highlights - especially on her forehead.
great pose, nice crop, good choice of orientation. the muslin background takes away from the candid feel of this...a solid or more natural background might add to the emotional impact - but that's just an opinion; doesn't affect my score.
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