thanx for that, the lighting was indeed a nightmare, but i didint want to use flash to fill in as i was a bit "in his face" as it was.
the framing was an experiment which worked better than i thought.......

drew a box inside the image, inverted selection. copied.... opened new layer and pasted. changed the blend mode to multiply, added a stroke of black to the outside and that was that.

gives the illusion of a different focus but its not really.

Fi

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