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1.71 - "Needs Work" 

My daughter was posing all on her own the day I got my camera. I was originally going to throw this image away because it was underexposed and not as sharp as I wanted. Combined with a messy living room in the background I really didn't think it was a good picture. I was bored and decided to practice some Photoshop and decided to try this image and was able to get this result out of it. I am by no means a professional photographer or editor, however I am quite happy with not throwing away the original image before editing it.

There are some things I believe that still need some work on this image, but I'm not fully skilled yet in tackling them. Maybe one day in the near future I will come back to it and make it even better. You can see some retouching blemishes still and some blurred areas I did that need fine tuned. I believe my main issue right now is using a gaming TN panel monitor. Next purchase is a IPS monitor to help my editing.

Sony a6500 18-105mm f4

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