The Beauty of Retouching

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN: PROOFS and FINAL PRINTS.

Most files undergo a little bit of tweaking before you see them. Sometimes they come out of the camera a little dark,

7906 cake without correction The Beauty of Retouching

and with a small adjustment, I turn it into this.

7906 cake with correction The Beauty of Retouching

Also, I usually convert some color images into black & white.
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Another step I take in order to achieve a beautiful album is to restore the skin and eyes to their natural beauty. 

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4745 eye color after The Beauty of Retouching

And finally, I offer object removal. Why do I do this?  For most of the day I will be a fly on the wall, covering events as they naturally unfold, without any intrusion or direction. Object removal helps us to focus our eyes on what is truly important in the photograph.

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2593 no matron The Beauty of Retouching

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