Exercise - Enhancement

ENHANCEMENT

Here is a portrait picture as requested, with no artificial light and in the shade.  Firstly I lasso Hannahs face and select ... I have minus the contrast and that removes colour, so instead I increased by +24.
The effect it gave was that it looked like Hannah had more make up on, so this could be useful if your model was looking a little washed out.  I plussed the Brightness by +38 but you could see the lasso marks begining to appear around the face, 11 OK and -13 you start to see a rim appear.  So I just adjusted until all was as I wanted, then saved the image.
The book I used was again Adobe Lightroom by Scott Kelby, page 104.

AFTER ADJUSTMENTS

This second selection is to enhance the eyes. Ella here has beautiful eyes anyway so don't really need enhancing, but its a good picture to practice on.
Again I used the Lightroom book page 180 ...  As with most pictures, zoom right in so you can be exacting with your alterations.   I started by getting the adjustment brush in develop mode, click on effect and get the pop down sliders.  I increased the saturation to 75, then painted over the iris. Then drag the clarity and sharpness sliders, lower the brightness a little and increase the exposure.
Then you can brighten the white of the eye.  I clicked the new button, as working on a new area.  Then increased the exposure amount to 0.95.  I painted over the white of the eye, if it looks bright you can always decrease the amount of exposure.  I did find the white of this little girls eye was very white anyway so didn't need too much but it was good just for me to experiment.  Then if you need to you can click the new button and choose soften skin to soften around the eye gently, but again I did use on Ella but wasn't required.

AFTER ADJUSTMENTS

I think I would use most of these effects, but with caution, gentle enhancements are great and I think especially with a portrait you focus on the eyes and if you can make these stand out even more then I think this would be beneficial and improve the photo, just by lifting the colour fractionally.  These changes being more noticeable on and enlargement.

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