Little girl on the park.

[janrem1115]

Your critique of this photo will help me improve my skills.

THanks in advance.

olympus e-520
40-150mm lens
shutter priority
150mm
1/400
f/5.6
ISO-800
converted to b&w using picasa 3.0

[amitkhanna84]

Looks good to me... I like it! The lighting seems nice.

If you want to try something ... try tweaking the color-specific luminance channels... for e.g. if you tweak the orange, green and yellow... you can increase some and decrease the other to create some dark streaks in the grass ...

but then... if you want the focus to be on the kid... then this is fine too...

I know you can change the color channels in LightRoom... not sure abt picasa.

[dolphin1]

In my opinion this photo is fantastic just the way it is. I wouldn't change anything.

[BigFuzzy]

Just to give you an idea of differing opinions/tastes, I really really dislike the whole white/blurry vignetting. Feels gimicky and cheap to me. But as I said, that's a taste thing, and many will like/love it.
I see it and think "hmm, someone's just starting to find out about post processing".. and I've been through that exact phase, so I'm not judging trying it, just sharing my opinion of it. I think a slight dark vignetting would be much better. Not sure if you can do that in picasa.. and in my opinion, the more subtle the vignetting the better in most cases.

And I would agree with the above poster and add some contrast to the grass so she would stand out a bit more..

If possible, I'd dodge/brighten the area around her eyes a bit, they're lost in darkness almost.
Still, a very sweet shot.