I would like to mention the difficulty I had to edit this shot. Taken by one of my bud Mozart recently into photography using Nikon D40. But the original shot was too noisy and distorted especially at the face. It challenges my skills in editing, I couldn't get rid of the noise thru Adobe Raw or in CS, so I had to do it manually. Use alot of brush to resemble the colour so that obvious pixel are removed, healing properties to get rid of the noise and distortion. But I couldn't get rid of the noise entirely so I let it be and add gaussian blur, a high pass and unsharp mask on different part to the body and face. The result is what you see.

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"Intensity of Seduction"