Portrait Post Work

[zona5101]

Before:

Post Work in PS
Duplicated the layer
Clone stamped out the fly away stray hair
Healing Brush on a scrape mark by the upper lip
Created a blank layer, added white to the iris and catchlight, reduced the opacity to 7%
Created another duplicate layer, added a mask, inverted it then desaturated the white of the eye, reduced the opacity to 23%
Created a duplicate layer and a layer mask, added a noise reduction filter to the skin only
Created a new layer and added lens blur
Selectively erased/reduced the lens blur
Merged visable layers
Post in LR:
Warmed the skin slightly
Cropped to 16x16
After:

[Penary]

You have an excellent photo, I like it. However I see little things that I would do different, but keep in mind that I did say you have an Excellent photo. 1st I would whiten her teeth just a little. The rest is just me as I see the photo. I like the original color of her hat, it adds more contrast. I would remove the lens blur; you have a very pleasing background. Just my thought, all for a penny.
Larry

[zona5101]

Thanks for the comment!!

[sedetweiler]

I prefer the sharpness of the original. If you want to simulate depth-of-field that use lens blur rather than Gaussian. Moreover, keep in mind that if the eyes are in focus, then anything at the same depth plane must also be in focus, so the shoulder and hat would probably be fine, but could fade away as you leave the center. This will add a lot to the believability of the image that is missing now.

Also, since you have the patient open and on the table, might as well remove the red marks from under the eyes, chin, and brighten the eyes a bit by adding the missing "moon" to the lower left of the iris. There are a few examples on my blog if you are looking for tips for this type of retouching. See my signature for the linky.

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by sedetweiler

I prefer the sharpness of the original. If you want to simulate depth-of-field that use lens blur rather than Gaussian. Moreover, keep in mind that if the eyes are in focus, then anything at the same depth plane must also be in focus, so the shoulder and hat would probably be fine, but could fade away as you leave the center. This will add a lot to the believability of the image that is missing now.

Also, since you have the patient open and on the table, might as well remove the red marks from under the eyes, chin, and brighten the eyes a bit by adding the missing "moon" to the lower left of the iris. There are a few examples on my blog if you are looking for tips for this type of retouching. See my signature for the linky.

I've been to your site and admire your work. Thanks for the comments! I value the feedback.

[veronicacarter]

I have same like this in my collection . I modified it . I put it here both pictures after and before .

[zona5101]

Nice work, you should go ahead and start your own post with these so more people can check them out...not a lot of activity on this ol post.