Accidental JPEG Portrait....Thoughts?

I was practicing some Bokeh Panoramas before I took this portrait and forgot to switch my settings back to RAW format. This was actually 1 of about eight images in a five minute portrait session (set up, shoot, break-down). The first image is SOOC, and the following is an attempted edit (LR4 only). Huge difference in the amount of adjustments you can perform when editing a RAW image VS a Jpeg one. Not much I could do in the way of Brightness color and contrast adjustments without ruining the file.... Anyway, any thoughts on these...?

Thanks for looking!

face and background are a little too hot...

Your right, and being that it was a Jpeg file, there's virtually nothing I can do about it....this photo had potential

tak0eye wrote in post #15233297
Your right, and being that it was a Jpeg file, there's virtually nothing I can do about it....this photo had potential

What does being a JPG have to do with it?? Change the color temp, drop the yellows, simple things to do and easy to do with a JPG.

katodog wrote in post #15233499
What does being a JPG have to do with it?? Change the color temp, drop the yellows, simple things to do and easy to do with a JPG.

The amount of adjustment is greater w/ a RAW file, I just wish I had the "headroom" on this photo......

It's really not, JPG actually has a lot more adjustment leeway than people think. Apart from the blown areas of the sky, which you couldn't fix with RAW in this shot, the shot is easily "fixed". You don't have image editing allowed so I can't show you an edit. Give me permission to edit the photo...gimme, gimme, gimme!!!

Yeah, why not....go for it!

^^^^^Cool^^^^^^^ I still wish I had a RAW file of that image to play with though....

Try B&W