I Heart Faces – Constructive Feedback Friday

I am taking part in I Heart Faces Constructive Feedback Friday.

Here is an original photo, in all it’s unedited glory. It is my daughter on the beach one evening last week, here in Northern Ireland, as the light was fading.

I have a Canon 400D (Rebel xti) and I use PSE 7.

Here are a few of my attempts to work with this photo.

First I did what I normally do to most photos – tweak the levels a bit, then adjust the opacity of both a screen level and soft light.

Next I went back to the original and warmed the skin tone slightly, but not sure if I overdid it?

I ran a coffee shop action – little perk – on this one.

Thought I would try black and white,

So, what would YOU do?

As I look at all these images, anything (apart from the B&W conversion) seems very subtle. Maybe I need to be a bit more adventurous! Let me know please.

ALL constructive criticism welcome.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate the advice.