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I asked him his name but i forgot it. I had to take a picture documenting what i did for service hours for this project for school. took a picture of a boy on the street. here it is. A bit over PPed, i have a heavy hand when it comes to photoshopping. whatever its a quickie. whatdya think?

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9518/boy3033101.jpg

kinda average IMO. The kid wouldnt stop squinting. Did this with natural light. 18-55 lens with my rebel xt.

I suppose it's pretty nice in terms of quality, and about the squinting thing, he probably did it out of nervousness or maybe it's a condition.

thanks jool!
lol he prolly just felt awkward. a random stranger with a camera? yeah i would. oh well though.

lol
he was like: OMG A PAPA BEAR WITH A CAMERA!
But he tried to relax, had a hard time though:p

Good photo;)

lol exactly. i concur with you flat

I believe Kelvin is correct, I lol'd at him squining but overall, yea not bad man :)

lol definitely looks too blown out. If you use flash effectively enough, just half a stop or so above the background exposure you get a nice blown out effect but not too much ;)

The guy's fried out of his mind. That is why he is squinting. :D

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Originally Posted by Rexy.

lol definitely looks too blown out. If you use flash effectively enough, just half a stop or so above the background exposure you get a nice blown out effect but not too much ;)

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lol well i didn't use a flash.. and i'm not completely sure what is blown out at this point aside form maybe his jacket or tiny bits of the snow.


lol yeah he was just chillin outside so i dunno what he was doin dm. XD

I believe his lower hands are like "Please dont kill me, I have no connections to any one baaaaaaaaad!" and his eyes are squinting.
But i actulaly loved that squint pose, it looks a little natural rather than make him do a model pose :D

Was on camera flash used by any chance?
The way the photo is exposed makes it appear that way. On camera flash can make a really flat photo if you aren't careful.

EDIT:
saw that theres no flash used. Strange, did you add those highlights in photoshop then? I'd reduce them to make him fit more naturally with the rest of the image.

It's way too heavily processed; as well as the airbrushing making the kid look blobby and jelly-like, the haloing around the person and the flat, greyed out background take away from the image a lot. You've made it look like you've taken a photo of a kid in bright sunny weather then photoshopped it onto a dull snowy dusk-light stock photo. I'm sure the original is much more appealing.

lol yeah i added the photoshop highlights. too much though like i said before. I plan on knocking it down a bit.

Thanks for the comments.