Lawana - J.C. Raulston Arboretum

This portrait of Lawana smiling was taken at the JC Raulston Arboretum located in Raleigh, NC. The shot was lit with a single shoot thru umbrella positioned above and to camera right. Located just to the left of the frame, a 2'x3' piece of foamcore was used as a reflector.
 
Post processing included raw conversion via ACR, color correction, cropping and desaturating in photoshop CS3. I used a b/w adjustment layer opacity of around 70% to leave just a touch of color. You can see the original unedited image here on Flickr.