Retouch before and after

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David Campbell
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Hi again, it's been a while!

I would be interested in your comments about this portrait retouching.
I did not use any "quick fix" blurring techniques, there is NO blurring at all.
It was done with 3 hours of healing and dodging & burning. I dont know if you can tell at lower res, but all the skin texture, pores etc are still present.

I know there is popular software to do this in 5 minutes, but it just looks plastic to me, am I right?

I would also value comments from a portrait aspect, eg is it any good? Most of my work has been landscapes.

Please comment - I can take it! :)

Dave

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Looks OK to me, very nice work.
 
Thanks, maybe I should have posted this in image processing?
 
Looks very well done.

Liking the pink/red skin changing to smoother colour. And the loop of hair at the back. Not sure the grey colour on the hair works as the originals colour looks quite nice.

Pose wise... looks nice, not sure about the head on hand resting, just something that I read or general feeling isn't quite right.

Personally if you had got smaller pupils and more colour would be excellent...

Lighting seems good, nothing too black or overly bright, catch lights are nice!

Congrats on the shot and PP.
 
It looks quite good to me, but I'd need to see it quite a lot bigger to form a proper view.

The only problem I can see at this size is that you haven't done the hand, which looks dirty compared with the face in the finished version.
 
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