Indian Traditional Game - C&C are most welcome!!

[Tejal]

Kindly share your C&C for my below image.

Regards,

Tejal

IMG_5551 as Smart Object-1 by Tejal Imagination, on Flickr

[mugge]

Tejal, great shot, love the concentration in the boy's face. I think you choosing B&W is great. I would crop 10mm off on both sides. That is only my opinion.
Cheers Ole

[Tejal]

Tejal, great shot, love the concentration in the boy's face. I think you choosing B&W is great. I would crop 10mm off on both sides. That is only my opinion.
Cheers Ole

Thanks Ole for your valuable suggestion.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Tejal]

Nicely captured.

Thank John !!! But today I missed your 1st comment =D.

[davidedric]

As the others have said, great image to capture the concentration of the player AND the flying marbles (that's what I would call them). I wonder if it's the same game we used to play when I was that age?

Dave

[Tejal]

As the others have said, great image to capture the concentration of the player AND the flying marbles (that's what I would call them). I wonder if it's the same game we used to play when I was that age?

Dave

Thanks Dave . Even I used to play this game a lot and used to be very tough for other players :P

[davidedric]

Girls weren't allowed to play in our games. You might have beaten us

Dave

[Tejal]

Girls weren't allowed to play in our games. You might have beaten us

Dave

He he he.... .

[NorthernFocus]

You really captured the intent look on the lad's face. From a technical standpoint your point of focus and DOF are perfect. The boy and the marbles are in focus while FG and BG are nicely blurred. Compositionally IMO it might be better if the boy weren't centered quite as much. Also the marble at upper left is a bit distracting. I'd be tempted to try cropping to 4x5 format with the boy a little more to the left thus looking more into the frame and giving a sense of direction. Overall nicely done.

[RBSinTo]

Tejal,
This is an exceptionally fine shot, for all the reasons that have already been stated.
My only suggestion would be to crop vertically about two centimeters to our right of the boy's left knee.
This would eliminate the horizontal symmetry, and place the boy's face in a thirds position which, in my opinion would strengthen the composition.
Robert

[rpcrowe]

I love this image. The marbles and the boy's hands and arms lead my eye directly to his very intense expression.

However, I think that if this were my image, I would crop it more tightly, like this:

[bnnrcn]

Hi Tejal, great concentration on the boy's face I find the flying marbles distracting and I would clone them. I like Richard's crop but because the BG is blurred nicely I think the environment adds to the image and iF the image was mine I would only clone the flying marbles and keep the rest as is.

[Rita]

What a lovely image Tejal. You have caught this boy at the right moment. His intense concentration really adds to the image. It does make me wonder where his friends are?

[dem]

Lovely image. I would not change anything about it.

[Manfred M]

This is a great shot, Tejal! I especially like how you got down low at eye level with your subject. I can only restate what others have already said about the image; the boy's concentration, the action of the marbles motion, etc.

The image does not look quite sharp to me, so I had a look at the full-size one on your Flickr site and that confirmed this lack of sharpness. At f/5 on your lens, I would guess that the shot is at full aperture? The 1/500th sec should freeze the motion. My guess is that the camera focused in front of the boy, likely on the marbles on the ground. Out of focus can't be fixed, but I tried a bit of sharpening to see if it might help a bit.

I also found that lifting the shadow detail opens up the boy's face and body a bit and I think that helps a bit too. I also agree with the others that suggest that the marble flying through the air on the left is distracting, so I cloned it out and I also found I agreed with the people who felt the boy was too centred, so I cropped to increase the asymmetry in th e shot a bit. Here is my edit:

[wilgk]

Terrific shot, I think improved with the sharpening and crop as applied.
Well done!

[scully]

I like this shot. I just struggle with the focal point being on the marbles on the ground and not on the boy's face. In a close shot like this a slightly higher aperture would have kept them all in focus. I tend to be an opportunist photographer rather than setting shots up and when I posted a shot up here where the subject was slightly out of focus, the best advice I got was to set the camera to Aperture mode with an aperture that provides a deeper depth of field. This allows a reaction shot to have a better chance of being in focus. It doesn't fix shots you have already taken but it will make for a greater percentage of sharp shots in the future. At least, it works for me.

It is still a really good shot and I love the young boy's look of concentration, especially once it has been sharpened. I am not sure about the cropping because the cropping also makes the boy's face larger and so the focus more obvious. Just my amateur opinion.

[Tejal]

You really captured the intent look on the lad's face. From a technical standpoint your point of focus and DOF are perfect. The boy and the marbles are in focus while FG and BG are nicely blurred. Compositionally IMO it might be better if the boy weren't centered quite as much. Also the marble at upper left is a bit distracting. I'd be tempted to try cropping to 4x5 format with the boy a little more to the left thus looking more into the frame and giving a sense of direction. Overall nicely done.

Many thanks for your valuable feedback.

[Tejal]

Tejal,
This is an exceptionally fine shot, for all the reasons that have already been stated.
My only suggestion would be to crop vertically about two centimeters to our right of the boy's left knee.
This would eliminate the horizontal symmetry, and place the boy's face in a thirds position which, in my opinion would strengthen the composition.
Robert

Thank you for your valuable suggestion.