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The obligatory Christmas morning portrait of Katrin, sporting new outfit and fave pressie!

This one was an interesting exercise.
Katrin was just not in the mood on this outing.
On this particular shot, she was pouting and miserable and had a squint in her eyes due to looking into the sun.
I tried out the push tool on her mouth to slightly lift the corners of her mouth, and the bloat tool on her eyes to remove the squint. (both tools are in the distort tool in the Photoshop filters menu.
The image was shot at f4 and despite her proximity to the background, the wall and wooden window boards were slightly out of focus.
High pass sharpening pulled everything back in to an acceptable level.

Katrin outside an old fishermans' bothy at St Cyrus beach.
She just spotted a bee.

Took Katrin for a stroll around the St Cyrus Nature Reserve this afternoon, armed with camera, one flash, a brolly and a stand.

ISO50 f5 1/300
Canon 580EX Mk2, manual @ 1/2 power