Photo 9/10

Photo 9/10

Before/After 

The original photo : 

After edits using camera Raw : 

After edits using photoshop : 

How I optimised my photo ? 

Using Camera Raw I cropped this image into a square crop. I thought this was the best crop for this image as there was a lot of negative space on the top. I also wanted to make the diagonal created by the balls stronger and have a visual impact. As previously I added more contrast. 

Using Photoshop I created a high pass filter layer, added a black mask and changed the blending more to soft light. I used the white brush to paint in their faces so they were a bit sharper, because the emotions on their faces are interesting.

Final