This was taken on suppressed flash indoors on Macro
I value my eyesight and to be able to see the beautiful things around me and my lovely family
and of corse all the beautiful images here on D P C
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I was given this from the critique club queue, but I had already commented. So instead of additional comments, I thought I'd take this opportunity to try and illustrate my point below. In addition, I waited long enough that it got put back in the queue, so you will get another critique club review from someone else.
Here's my attempt at softening the lighting on the skin. I did this in a manner such that you could have done this legally with Gaussian blur and fading, as long as your software supports that without using layers. But I actually had to do it manually, and illegally, using layers since I have PSe rather than PS. But it still illustrates what I thought would improve the pic!
Also, outside of a challenge, you could do one additional adjustment. If you did the softening with layers, or used a mask, you could apply it to the face but not the eyes.
I couldn't agree more, It was going to be my choice to as I value my sight more than most things.
You've managed to get some good detail in this with a good expression of sincerity too. I can't decide though, whether it would have improved it to crop out the hair left and right.
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