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Jon,
Thank you for your interest. Critique is fine. Great, in fact.
I don't use lightroom. For the original B&W, I started with a Nik Silver Efex Pro layer, and then several curves adjustment layers - and a sharpening layer. Andre asked to see a color version. I took the working B&W and removed the Nik layer. All of the adjustment layers remained. I guess that explains the funky coloring, I should have started from scratch. Color doesn't interest me much. FYI, a jpeg SOOC is attached.
You had mentioned that her eyebrows were light in the middle. In the SOOC image, that's how they are. I guess she uses a pencil and likes it that way, for some reason. In my street portraiture, my interest is in showing the humanity in each of our faces. I make no attempt to glorify people, I'm not into beauty photography. My punchy, contrasty style sometimes (often) accentuates blotchiness, wrinkles, etc. Then I try to 'improve' things to get back to reality. I do not want to glorify features, but I don't want to accentuate negatives either. The gesture is everything to me.
I was too cavalier about the shortcut I took to make a B&W version. Again, thank you for your time and interest.
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