Using an image I took in my Lilia Luganskaia shoot, I increased the saturation of the blue in the eyes as well as brightening their exposure. This helps to make them stand out as features on the face, in contrast with the dark hair elsewhere in the image. This also fits with the statement that “eyes are the windows to the soul”.

Next, I used the frequency separation technique to smooth out the textures in the skin, I did not want this to be too extreme as this would create a false perception making the person seem unrecognizable.

The technique involves creating multiple layers of an image, before healing and blurring areas of the skin that you do not want to appear.