I was demonstrating my camera gear and photo editing techniques the other day for a friend of mine. I took a few portraits of him.

Some were blurry, some were lit wrong because we had a mix of blue light from a window as the day was ending, and yellow light from a chandelier. We didn't bother telling a story with any of those messed up images. I simply deleted them.

When I got an image that had no distractions, then I did the artistic post-processing magic, to tell a story and create the mood I wanted.

This is the image I started with.

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