A Kid & Snow

[selig1656]

#1
PC154158 blkwht affini by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr
#2
PC154154 face edited by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr
#3
blk wht emily 2 posterize by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr

[pschlute]

That first image is a cracker

[Shadowman]

Nice efforts.

[escape]

These photos make me wish it would snow. Nice series.

[Manfred M]

The first image is excellent. The other two are nice, but don't work as well. These all show a strong shooting position when photographing children; you've gotten down to their level and that is important!

#1 - Very effective - I might clean a few things up here or there, but nothing really major.

#2 - The lighting is too harsh to be effective. Her face could use to be lightened up.

#3 - Along the lines of the first one, but her expression is not as engaging and the crop along the bottom is a bit awkward where you have cropped through her hand. A higher or lower crop that either gets rid of the hand or includes all of it would be more effective.

[DanK]

Not fair that you have snow and we don't.

I think the first and third are excellent shots. The second has very bad clipping at the bright end, shown in red here:



There isn't much you can do with that. The problem is that given the snow and bright sunlight, the image has more dynamic range than your camera could handle.

I'd consider a local edit of #3. The image as a whole is high-contrast, but the face isn't. I would boost the contrast of the face a bit, e.g.:

[billtils]

Nice set raymond - I agree with DanK, with the reservation that while the comments on the second image are technically correct, your choices were capture as is or not shoot at all and I think you made the right decision.