I have no idea what I ' m doing <| sep |> Wait , I can only see Barry in two photos on the right . <| sep |> Most of these drugs probably inspire mania by giving access to more NMDA and AMPA receptors by releasing glutamate more or sensitizing the receptors . What if intelligence and mania are the same disease ? And psychosis is the dissociative withdrawal from trauma induced from being too cognitive and too thoughtful . <| sep |> Hey DrLio , 1 You could potentially reduce the lights in that corner with some sort of local adjustment , and that would limit the distraction . However , I would still crop the image , it ' s a crooked line next to the edge of the frame , that ' s a pretty distracting element and it pulls the eye away from our subject . Distracting is not always bad but in this case I don ' t think it adds anything . 2 I increased the contrast 26 and the highlights 24 and reduced the shadows 32 . These are all Lightroom edits btw . This is a very different edit than other photogs would make , I just tried to guess what he was going for and edit accordingly . 3 To me it looked like he ' d brought the shadows up a bit which gives the original light a flatgrey look . When you ' ve got a shot like this with a noisy background you want to make the subject pop a little , I brought down the background light to make her stand out . That glossy look is what happens when your shadows are at the right level . Grainy shadows typically means you ' ve tried to brighten them too much . in general . Shadows can do all sorts of weird things I did this edit on my phone , if I was going to do it for real I would actually bring the contrast on the subject down a little bit using a local adjustment , to me the neonish skin is a bit much . But again , this all depends on your personal preference . Hopefully that answered your questions , feel free to clarify if I missed something .