Hi Guys,

I know it's been a little while since I was actively posting in here (although I do check in and read the threads several times a week) but..... I've been having a bit of a downer with my photography lately!

Since getting my 30D, I've been struggling to get any decent shots and have seriously struggled to find my "mojo" again however, on Friday, we spent a day at a friend's wedding and took our cameras with us.  I thoroughly enjoyed getting back behind the lens and despite many, many really bad shots (usually because I had the settings all wrong and they ended up way too dark!) I did get some reasonable ones and are certainly worth a little effort in post-work but at the end of the night, we ended up back in our local bar (not the wedding party, just me and Carl!) and I, having had copius amounts of alcohol by this point LOL!!, was happily shooting all of my friends in their natural surroundings, pints in hand, playing pool etc, etc, and I took a shot of a lovely lady called Gemma, who happens to be the licensee of the bar (I also work in this bar on a couple of evenings, so I know them all pretty well).

Anyway, I knew straight away that I like the shot of Gemma, in my opinion, I like the composition and the pose she so happily did for me but due to the alcohol, I didn't have the focus right on her eyes and find it more on her nose - nothing wrong with her nose, but not where the focal point should be!!!

I've tried postworking it doing the obvious healing to remove unwanted sparkly pixels and flash in her eyes but I still feel the photo looks "flat" somehow and my levels of expertise in PS is minimal to say the very least.

I've included with this the original shot (in .jpg format only - no RAW!) and obviously resized it for the thread here and I will upload the "finished" working from me so you can see what I've done.

My question is, is there anybody out there who has good editing skills for portrait shots that fancies a go at this one?  I'm not doing this to make any money, but Gemma has said that she'd like a print of it and I really want to give her the best possible one I can so your help would be appreciated.

I will obviously need to get the full size orginal to anyone that fancies a try, so I can either email it to you or upload it to my website and allow you to take it from there - let me know if there are any takers!!

Thanks guys, I'm really counting on you to help me out if you can.

Hugs

Chrissy xxx

"I don't suffer from insanity,
I enjoy every minute of it."
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