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was just trying my hands at postprocessing in Gimp; I did so many things to this pic that I can't even repro those steps any longer :)
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This is the same shot in color with a few artistic liberties taken during PP. I cloned off the moon that was a small spec in the original and cloned in this moon which was taken at the same time.
If your wondering why this is the only pic you can see of the summer party... it's because I've made them non-public. Drop me an email to see the rest.
I opened the photo in Adobe Camera Raw and did the following. Pushed exposure by about a full stop, brought the fill light slider up to about 20 to "simulate" fill flash. I moved the blacks slider to about 5 or 10 to bring the shadows back down to get a little more contrast. Then I went into the lens correction module and applied a vignette of -100% to darken the corners, leaving the midpoint at about 50%. After that I applied a medium contrast curves adjustment to further enhance contrast a bit. I didn't like how the red on the bathing suit was becoming a little distracting and stealing your attention away from the expression, so I very slightly desaturated the image by about -5%. Done!
I badly mucked up the exposure for the original shot, but there was enough texture left to salvage something. It was meant to be a backlit leaf with the sun glinting through the holes :o)