This was a very tight cell phone selfie at the Prettyboy Dam in Parkton, Maryland. I took photo and expanded the image in Photoshop to give it a bit more breathing room. I then darkened the background (that the spillway of the dam with the water falling) in Lightroom to make the two men pop a bit more. I then used transform feature in Lightroom to make the images more bulbous. Then I moved the image into Luminar Neo, whitened the teath, and colorerd and enlarged the eyes. Finally, back into Lightroom, I colored the tongues a more vibrant red using the object slelect mask with saturation, expoure and brightness. Oh, and I whitened those yellow teeth in Luminar (as much as I could).

P.S. The Prettyboy Dam is a 1930s depretion era public works project. As legend has it, a horse named Pettyboy lost its life there during construction, thus the name Prettyboy Dam.

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