Using a new technique

[fotosbysylvia]

Hi all, I have been playing witha new technique for my portraits.
I used my D90 at ISO 200 and 80/f13 I placed two strobes, one to the left at half power and one facing the subject with a "32 reflector on the silver side. Both had softboxes on them.
In my postpocessing I used PS2 and took the saturation out. Oh and I had my 18-55mm lens (I think, no pretty sure)
My question is, the client loved it, but because it took a while (15 min) to postpros) would you consider this "creative art and should I charge more than what I would for a print that has basic processing, eyes, teeth, skin smoothing. Thanks all comments are always welcomed.
First time posting, hope I did it right, read the rules but rules are sometimes subjective lol

[BigFuzzy]

15min = "a while" ? Really? Crap, using that formula, I'm spending a bloody eternity on my photos!

Joking aside, this sort of processing is something that, in my opinion, a photographer should do to ALL their images. Not the specifics that you mentioned, but spending a bit of time in PP to make sure things are perfect (in vein with what they are trying to do) in terms of cleaning things up, color correction, cropping, etc etc..
So that I understand better, what is it you did more than the "basic processing" because I'm not sure I see more than the "basics" you did mention?

No, I don't think this can be called "creative art" because as far as I can see, it's a photograph, nothing less, nothing more (not meant as a critique).


I'm not actually commenting on the photo, because that's not what you asked critiquing on.