Child swimming in waves

[Duif]

Hi i was taking this photo in Desember 2007 with my nicon D40X. The focal length was 165mm, f/10, 1/400, ISO 80. Just want to know if there is something that i can do to get the photo more coulorfull and will welcome any other criticism<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peeperita/2256351876/" title="DSC_1756 by peeperita, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2256351876_797fae1db8.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="DSC_1756" /></a>

[Nathan deGargoyle]

I would suggest cropping in to get rid of the empty space at the bottom and put the childs face at the top third intersection.

Sharpen slightly to show the texture of the foam.

Flip horizontally to make the picture read left to right...


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b209/IanGM/duifsswimmer.jpg

[dmvp]

It will be hard to add much color to the shot, as there aren't really any bright colors to speak of. The waves are crashing, so they're white, the sand is tan, and the boy's swim trunks aren't visible. You could possibly try to make the waves a bit more blue.

It's quite a shot. Did you end up getting soaked?!?

[jiminyClickit]

Duif, Welcome

Have a minute? Here's a link to the new Guidelines in Critique. One of them is to keep your photo size to 600 pixels on the longest side. Please edit.

http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10894

[peeperita]

i edited the size of your image for you and i am currently hosting it on my site......plese resize and edit your post so i don't have to hold it on my photostream for more than a day or two.....

you'll get the hang of it....:)

peeper

[KathrynWilson]

I managed to introduce color like this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2002/2256711892_c59c770d79_o.jpg

Using color balance. Problem is that there was so much white in the original pic that doing this is simply introducing a totally surreal, unlikely-to-be-real effect - though it does look cool :) The slight touch of sea-foamy green in your original is quite hard to tease out further into anything much. So my play is really just for fun!

[Duif]

Sorry for the large image, but i'll try to do it not again. Thank you for your inputs. Kathryn thank you but i like the colour of Nathan more.