My son Jack

[owenmorris]

[Ludwig]

Very well done! I love the pose and the pensive look. The black background works well for this photo. A bit of a crop on the left would make the linear features more prominent. This is a treasure of an image.

[Daisy Mae]

Hi Owen, good to see you again.

Jack is a stunning looking boy and this is a marvellous portrait.

I love everything about it...except the drop shadow frame .

[Loose Canon]

Hi Owen!

Great looking young lad, sir! Great pose and background and the lighting looks nice.

I wonder if its me, my monitor, or me, but can you detect a color cast on Mr. Jack?

His wrist looks a little hot and I was wondering if maybe some recovery or burning might be advantageous? I am seeing some little hot spots on his face, but if I am close with the color cast thingie, that might be easily changed.

Or it could just be me on my continuing downward spiral!

[speedneeder]

Looks pretty good to me.
I agree with Terry, the first thing I thought was the color wasn't quite right.
For my personal tastes, I would crop out the obstruction on the lower left and reconsider the blurring used - I probably wouldn't blur at all, but if I did, I would make sure to include the logo on the shirt too.
Thanks for posting

[owenmorris]

Hi all thanks for viewing and the comments to be honest this was purely a chance photo as Jack does not like to be photographed like he use to and I have to just literally grab the camera and shoot lol, the blur is not added its the lens I used 35mm 1.8 still playing round with it thanks again to all

[Colin Southern]

Hi Owen,

Hope you don't mind, but I've made a few changes ...

- Sharpen

- Change shirt colour

- Remove knee

- Fix colour cast

[Ludwig]

Now we have another "Blue Boy"! - This is a delightful transformation - cool!

[speedneeder]

Looks good Colin.

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Brian & Ludwig,

Hopefully a good example of how dark coloured clothing draws the eye to the face, and doesn't distract.

[speedneeder]

I'm not so good at getting the color right after the fact. Can you explain how you adjusted it?
Thanks

[Colin Southern]

I'm not so good at getting the color right after the fact. Can you explain how you adjusted it?
Thanks

Hi Brian,

I just used the white balance eyedropper in ACR around the collar area. Still not entirely happy with it though -- looks like a bit too much magenta. Really needs someone like Ashwin who's great at adjusting colour by eye.

[speedneeder]

Ahhhh, good idea