Son and Bike

[greenroomsessions]

This is a photo that I was able to get while I actually got my son to stay still for long enough for. I would like some critique on composure and anything else of course. I think I know a couple of things that a wrong but I would like to see what everyone else thinks.



Camera Nikon D40X
Exposure 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture f/13.0
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash
Light Source Cloudy

[DivotMaker]

I think you have an interesting shot here.

I would like to see it cropped in two ways.

Crop a little off the top - The blowout in the sky is distracting.

Crop from the right - The dark mound and the blurred reed just off center is taking my eye of the subject.

Once those are gone, I really like how the mood is changed.....

Nice job!

[EOBeav]

Unfortunately, he's way too dark. This happens when your subject is facing away from the light source. Some off camera flash would have helped immensely here.

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[graciousness]

It's such a lovely shot and what a wonderful vision you had for this image! Love it!!

Sure an off-camera flash would have helped, however, when taking photos of kiddies, you just don't have time to set up things like that. It's a great job, as it is, that you managed to get him to stay still for a few seconds for this shot!

So unfortunate that it was such a cloudy day....I think it's the worse condition to take photos. Some people feel that it's bright, sunny days, but for me, it's cloudy days like this that I don't like.

Yes, he is too underexposed for this shot. But it doesn't mean that it's a lost shot. If you don't mind, I've played around really, really quickly with this photo to show you that this photo is not lost at all, but with a couple of very simple post processing, he'll be exposed. I've attached the edited photo and please let me know if you want it removed.

What I did:

1) Crop the top so that you remove all the unnecessary gray sky and turn the shot into more panoramic;

2) Adjust "levels" so that you can lighten the image (you can do this in photoshop and I believe, Lightroom. I used Aperture for this).

That's it. That's all I did. No saturation done as I didn't think it needed it. Anyhoo, go and play around with this photo yourself and adjust as far as how you want it done! I just wanted to show you that you can fix this really easily so now the photo looks quite different now.

Great eye, OP!

Cheers,

Grace