Afternoon Stroll
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Comment by Teafran:
An excellant casual portrait from an artistic viewpoint, it suffers from being a little too far in terms of subject and has been over sharpened which may be an example of RAW to .jpeg conversion sharpening as this reviewer doesn't believe that the over sharpening was intentional. The soft focus could be due to a camera meter selection - area vs spot focus on automatic. A good entry into the challenge, it certainly demonstrates a candid moment effectively, it's technical issues keep it from placing higher.

Afternoon Stroll
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Comment by bvy:
A nice moment. A little more crispness to make your subjects pop out would have been nice.

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Comment by Jutilda:
I love fish eye curve. What a sky. WOW

Fantasia
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Comment by pineapple:
Masterful and effective editing job. But I bet deep edits like that rip the pixels to death and leave a lot of artefacts when pixel peeping at 100%. Just curious because I tend to print large.

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Comment by NathanWert:
Dang, you're going to have to start teaching others how to do this. You'll get rich.

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Comment by lifternessjt:
David...Just wanted to let you know I really like this retouching series. Particularly like the way you make the colors POP!
GREAT pics!

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Comment by citymars:
Good job! Marking this as a favorite so I can come back and try and follow your steps someday. Thanks for your generosity.

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Comment by smudgeSMJ:
I love looking at all these retouching examples you have. The retouched version never looks particularly natural to me, but it is always eye-popping and fun to look at. This is my favorite so far.

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Comment by Pixlmaker:
Thank you for writing your processing steps, and again, great work!

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Comment by Pixlmaker:
AWESOME processing! What steps did you take to go from the original to the finished product?