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I love this portrait! I love the expression on his face and the dirty hands and fingernails! It captures an important movement of his life -- his childhood, like few images have done for anyone. This is an image his grandchildren will covet.

I did a few things to it. It was just a bit dark so I lightened it. I rotated and cropped it a bit just for more artistic tension.

I dodged the scleras (the whites of the eye) and the catch lights of the eye for extra "pop" and to bring out his personality.

I also added an edge treatment without a white inner frame just because the key is a low key image and the lightest part of the whole image should be his face.... somewhere....under the dirt. ;)

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