Santa's Helper

[Jimmy Boyd]

On camera flash w/pocket bouncer, changed background ps. C & C
Thanks

[Paul J McCain]

Too much glare from the flash for me. Might work with that in PS a bit.

[RandyMN]

Did you do something to the brown eyes? Never seen eyes that color before.

[Jimmy Boyd]

Eyes lighten in PS, dark, this was a snap shot,
Thanks playing with PS.

[HappySnapper90]

Her face and front is very under exposed by at least 1 stop and maybe 1.5 stops. The white of her coat and white band of her hat is very blown out. This shows how difficult it can be to work with a lot of white clothing and studio lighting.

[OL9245]

You can even the lighting on her face this way :
add a curve layer, do nothing on the curve
set the curve to "screen" (this is ~equivalent to +1 exposure)
than add a mask that will be an inverted, blurred version of the result :
apply image, option "invert" on, everything else as default;
blur to taste (radius 4 on the image posted).
make a curve adjustment on the mask to taste.

this layer will lit the shadows and still leave untouched the lights. It is a DIY replacement of shadow-highligts that I used a lot because it is fast and versatile. I usually set the opacity of this layer between 50% and 75%

The image is great, but your PP on the eyes was terrible imho.