Innocent Friendship - C&C Welcome

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

For the image i have used shallow DOF and it is processed in Photoshop to get a bit creamy look amd added few colors globally and locally. No Presets used.

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition and processing.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended).



Update 1 : Cropped from left, bottom and little from top as suggested by respected members



Update 2 : Cropped little more from left to remove door as suggested by respected members.



Update 3 : Cloned out the door instead of cropping it more as suggested

[Mark von Kanel]

excellant image Raj, just tooo much space subjects are kind of lost to me.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Raj,I like the image IMO the dark thing on the left distracts . I would try cropping it and also cropping the half of the green at the foreground to see how it looks.

[Manfred M]

I'll have to go along with what both Mark and Binnur have said; a closer crop would strengthen this image. Right now there is simply too much other material in the image, and that takes away from the subject. I see the same issue as Binnur does with the structure on the left, and agree with her that some of the out of focus foreground needs to go as well, as generally out of focus foreground tends to be distracting too; so reducing it will help.

[ied]

Lovely facial expressions. nice image in need of cropping.

Irene

[fotugraphy]

excellant image Raj, just tooo much space subjects are kind of lost to me.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. I have updated the description with the cropped image as suggested.

[fotugraphy]

Hi Raj,I like the image IMO the dark thing on the left distracts . I would try cropping it and also cropping the half of the green at the foreground to see how it looks.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. I have updated the description with the cropped image as suggested.

[fotugraphy]

I'll have to go along with what both Mark and Binnur have said; a closer crop would strengthen this image. Right now there is simply too much other material in the image, and that takes away from the subject. I see the same issue as Binnur does with the structure on the left, and agree with her that some of the out of focus foreground needs to go as well, as generally out of focus foreground tends to be distracting too; so reducing it will help.

Thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion. I have updated the description with the cropped image as suggested. It is certainly looking better now. I will try my best not to include much out of focus foreground Kindly review the cropped version.

[fotugraphy]

Lovely facial expressions. nice image in need of cropping.

Irene

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. I have updated the description with the cropped image as suggested. Kindly review the cropped version

[Manfred M]

Raj - I would crop a bit more on the left, just past that large object to see how that looks.

[Kodiak]

For sure, the second frame is more appealing and needs no further cropping.
As for the shallow DoF, you took the right decision. I personally appreciate the
negative space here. I would only suggest that you use the colour adjustment
sliders more gently.

[bnnrcn]

Crop is better Raj. First I would clone out the dark part on the top corner of the pink wall on the left to see if the big part of the wall still distracts. If it does,then I would certainly try what Manfred suggests.

[Shadowman]

Nice, crisp presentation. The angle of view is perfect.

[rpcrowe]

Wonderful smiling expressions on these two lads. I agree with a closer crop and would definitely want to crop out much of the OOF grass in the foreground..

[Stagecoach]

Perfect as is in Update 1 Raj.

[fotugraphy]

Raj - I would crop a bit more on the left, just past that large object to see how that looks.

Once again thanx for the review I have updated the description with the cropped version as suggested and cleaned version too.

[fotugraphy]

For sure, the second frame is more appealing and needs no further cropping.
As for the shallow DoF, you took the right decision. I personally appreciate the
negative space here. I would only suggest that you use the colour adjustment
sliders more gently.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. I have updated the description with a cleaner version with no further crop (Update #3). I will also try to use color adjustments gently.

[fotugraphy]

Crop is better Raj. First I would clone out the dark part on the top corner of the pink wall on the left to see if the big part of the wall still distracts. If it does,then I would certainly try what Manfred suggests.

Once again thanks for your kind review I have updated the description with cloned version as suggested. (Update #3)

[fotugraphy]

Nice, crisp presentation. The angle of view is perfect.

Thanks for your valuable review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

Wonderful smiling expressions on these two lads. I agree with a closer crop and would definitely want to crop out much of the OOF grass in the foreground..

Thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion I have updated the description with the cropped version.