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"Hi Hanna. I'd pull the orange back. Your original pic has the perfect skintone. If you want to warm up the image try adjusting the temperature under white balance by increments of 2 clicks to the right until you feel the image is warm enough.…"

"Hi again. Wow. Your pics are really pulling out my creative mojo. I did the 2nd image in PS4. Unfortunately I lost that beautiful haze. Great images to work with! Keep  on shooting! - Mike O."

"Hi Hanna! Nice images. I, too, like the sunny haze. Cross processing or split toning can make these images look vintage. I tried my hand on the first image. I brightened her skin tone and went wildly sharp on this image as well as changed the hue in…"

"Very good! LR4 is what I own. I did all my tweaking of your pic in LR4. Temp: 0; Tint: -2; Exposure: +0.24; Contrast: +4; Highlights: +35; Shadows: -40; Whites: +19; Blacks: -14; Clarity: +20; Vibrancy: +22; Saturation: +4. For Tone Curves:…"

"Hi Hanna!  Thanks! Yes. Contrast is great for landscapes but not for skin-tones unless that is your intention such as this image of an old woman I shot in Guatemala:…"

"Hello Hannah. This is a great pic. Sometimes doing little to enhance the picture will bring out the best of the image. I tried a little adjustments in Lightroom. Skintones are a little brighter, tears and eyes are more pronounced. Little sharpening…"

"Thank you, Pat."

"Nice. Cold colors add to the image.Must've been cold seeing that you have a hoodie on."