I had lunch with my cuz today. I had warned her the night before that I wanted to do some practice portraiture with her. As I was talking with her at the restaurant, I notice how nicely the light was coming in the window, so I decided to do my practice session right there in the booth. From this image, you would never know that she is sitting in a restaurant. That's one of the things I like about location portraiture.
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For comparison, here is a shot, straight out of the camera with no editing, to show where she was sitting. She didn't want to take her hat off, so I said that was fine. It's a cute hat, but the color just
wasn't working for me. I went into Lightroom and used the handy-dandy Adjustment Brush to take out the color. That is the best tool that Adobe has ever dreamed up! I used a light disk behind her as a backdrop. I didn't have a second disk, so I opened up the shadows on her face in Lightroom. I was using f1.4 to try and blur the backdrop as much as possible. f1.4 has such a shallow depth of field that it made her face softer than I would normally like. However, it's great for softening wrinkles. I added a softening technique in Photoshop to soften her face even more. 
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