Peruvian girl

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I took this shot while on a humanitarian expedition to Peru. All the kids at the school were clamoring for a photo. This calm school girl was waiting for her goverment subsidized gruel and bun for lunch. I took the shot just as she realized I was looking at her. This photo is straight from the camera. Any suggestions for post processing??? kmt

[KathrynWilson]

Wow, I love this shot!

I would suggest a recrop, color boost and sharpen. I note that the focus has fallen more on her top than on her face which is a pity but when sharpened it's not too noticeable. I personally LOVE going crazy on color, so here's my play, but if that's not your taste it'll be too much. The colors of that wall are just so great, and I love the little rose on her hat, so I think it looks nice if its very popped, but just a suggestion :)

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Great image!

And I meant to add - I didn't apply any changes at all really, aside from a small amount of contrast, to the face - the red is very much 'stuck' in there so I'm assuming those skin tones were as they were in real life and I left them like that.

[wulf]

That is certainly more vibrant! I do like colour, although I might want to pull back a bit from this level of saturation.

With the crop, I wonder if it would be worth losing a bit more from the left hand side, removing the diagonal element. You could then either leave her body facing across the picture or, because of where her eyes are, crop a bit more from the right so that her left eye looks across the centre line to the left hand side of the frame.

Wulf