Then sharpened, used blemish fixer (spot removal), digital noise removal, skin smoothing, cloned out the window crank, adjusted the brightness down and the contrast up, cropped and resized.
This was a good exercise for me, I'm glad that it had advanced editing. I had to keep reminding myself that it was "natural lighting". I had a lot of fun with this one. There are a lot of entries and I don't expect I'll get more than a 4.9 or a 5.0 on this one (fingers crossed).
I'm learning so much about my photo program and what people think is a good picture. The comments are great and always helpful.
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Very harsh lighting. Some of the pixels on the left side of the face and arm are completely blown. The same shot at a different time of day, or using a reflector and a much faster shuter speed would have probably done wonders.
Very strong contrast. To my mind it's a bit distracting. Maybe pulling a shade on the window would have softened it a bit or a reflector on the "dark" side of your subject's face to even out the lighting a bit.
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