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Good video HERE.

Playing with colour .

With a few perspective changes as well as a sky addition and contrast moves.

About as close as I could get.

Shadow/Highlights applied with a mask in PS.

Thanks and nicely done yourself.

Hi Ray. I started with Blur/Box Blur on a duplicate and played with the opacity and application via a mask. Blurring in FFT helped as did the face recognition in Topaz Photo AI for sharpening.

The ultimate subjective question. If you have direction towards enhancement/changes from a client or OP, then that's the approach I would take. But, if its there for a personal/subject approach or ...

I feel yur pain while shaving in the mornings.  :^)

Agreed. I found this particular photo a challenge to towards matching a particular style due to the vast differences in the contents of her samples and the OPs. IMHO

I used mist/fog brushes on new layers in Photoshop and various opacities. Some blur can be added if you prefer to these individual layers. For the web, I use sRGB from the get-go. Any other colour ...

I did say that I liked your version of the RAW photo.

Thank you Jim. Appreciated. It's always interesting trying to match 'a style', even harder to explain.

I like your revival of the RAW picture. Rather than a 'postcard' approach, her samples appear to me to be desaturated/less vibrant ... more of a soft approach. Subjectively and after Adobe Camera ...

If you were to post your picture here with this request, I'm certain that you would a variety of approaches towards matching her style.

Thanks for the play Sam.

Thanks for the fantastic music Jeff.  R.I.P. And thanks to you Ray for another play Ray.