Working On Dof. Please Advise Again.

You pushed she shadows, which resulted in making an already noisy photo much noisier. Also when you push the shadows like this things tend to get a bit wonky looking.

If it were my photo, I would have passed by it.

If you shot in Raw I think this is in the realm to fix and look good, if shot in .jpg at what I suspect is a decently high ISO....its probably not going to get fixed with any measure of quality IMO.

Shirley your subject is very poorly lit, while the back ground is far too bright and quite distracting.

Look to capture these scenes on overcast days and perhaps during light drizzle.

The beauty of digital is one can simply delete experimental exposures and process those that have promise. Heck I spent 5 hours testing 2 of my wide lenses for maximum DOF sharpness and lens diffraction using a very close object as dominant foreground. Maybe 100 exposures. Once I recorded my specs for minimum distance and clarity--- delete 😀

Shirley, your second one has great bokeh.... Would you mind sharing your specs (aperture, shutter, etc)?

I would brighten the photo!