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Are you referring to the grey streaks in the left corner?

edit - Oh the shirt - duhh pays to read doesnt it.

Id say theres a bit of luminance noise in there especially at the top of the shirt - along with a few flakes of dust
you could probably burn it out.



Ive seldom seen sensor dust in such a linear shape before - my guess is one of two things
1. did you dodge the background with the dodge tool? - possibly you just missed a spot
2 is there a wrinkle on your background causing a small shadow

It appears you may be lighting your background with separate lights is something obstructing one of them causing a shadow?

take a copy of the original image and in PS slowly adjust the levels so the image darkens sensor dust will begin to appear if you have any

alternative photograph a white background - or the sky - make sure the camera is focused place a square of paper to manually focus on remove the paper and take an image - then process it and adjust levels you can find you spots of sensor dust - which will always appear in the same place in the image

The only way dust shows up is small black spots on the sensor that easiest seen when using a small aperature (but number... like 16 or higher).  The spots are very small, often you have to view the image at 100% to see them.  So no the light area is not dust.

Lens flare. If you are using film lenses on a digital camera, it could even be sensor reflection against rear element, I think. In any case, it is still flare, though.