Exercise 20. Improvement

For this exercise I used a photo of my youngest son and utilised Lightroom to concentrate on his face to give it slightly less exposure and some more detail to bring it out from the surroundings a little.  I also utilised the healing brush to cover over a couple of skin marks.

This is the original:

 And this is the altered version:

The limits of how far this could be taken to remain a legitimate photograph are difficult to answer.  I believe that if you are not fundamentally altering the representation of the person that the picture is taken of it is ok to make small corrections.  It might be ok to make more corrections if that is the intent of the photograph, for example a comedy shot extending a particular feature for a desired effect might be perfectly acceptable to all.