I photographed this 10-year old Sri Lankan dancer with a 70-200mm lens. Children have such perfect skin that filters and diffusion techniques are not necessary. In this case, though, I experimented with something I hadn't done before. In Adobe Camera Raw, I moved the clarity slider to the left. Previously, I always moved it to the right to sharpen the mid-tones to make the picture pop with additional contrast and visual impact. By moving the clarity slider to the left, it acted like a combination between the 'glamour glow' filter in Color Efex Pro 4 by Nik and the program Portrait Professional. The skin looks like porcelain now, and even though this isn't what I saw, I really like the effect. The other things I did to this image include adding color to the lips (with Image > adjustments > hue/saturation), darkening the eyeshadow with the burn tool, and I narrowed her nose slightly with the forward warp tool in Liquify. My settings were 1/125, f/11, 400 ISO.
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