Generous crop
Levels
Lucis Arts (Sculpture), layer opacity to 30%
Saturations -20
Neat Image
2nd Lucis Arts layer (Whyeth), opacity to 30%
Border, save to 200kb
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This looks to me like it got caught somewhere between noise reduction and USM, and lost some of its real texture. (Maybe it was severely cropped to get in this close.) I'll have to check back and see if you have any explanation in your notes.
This is a great composition for a shot, but in order to pull this off, it just HAS to be sharper. At the very least, the eyes need to be in perfect focus.
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