Taken at the 2009 Tet Festival.
Cropped out top and right distractions
resized to 720
Topaz Adjust to custom sharp portrait setting increasing sharpness.
In PS increase saturation, select and brighten teeth and whites of eyes.
Select eyes and USM.
Selected mouth again and adjusted color slightly towards blue.
Did a little more USM on entire image.
Spot healed several freckles.
Blur on much of face and teeth to clean up noise.
Cloned out some stray hairs.
I'm not expecting much but I thought it was a decent shot to submit at the last minute. Hopefully it won't be looked on as a snapshot.
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