Some fun with editing

[Brownie]

Here's some aggressive editing. The color shot is a SOOC jpeg. I liked the subject but there was a lot of junk in the way. All done in Affinity.

DSC04294 by telecast, on Flickr

DSC04294 by telecast, on Flickr

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

That's done a bloody good job hasn't it!

 

[Brownie]

That's done a bloody good job hasn't it!

I was pretty surprised about the light bulb in front of his eye. If you look close you can see the outline, but if you didn't know you'd never see it.

 

[Deleted Member 5045]

I was pretty surprised about the light bulb in front of his eye. If you look close you can see the outline, but if you didn't know you'd never see it.

When you see a shading difference 99.99% of onlookers just think it's the subject itself rather than the editing.