New Photo, C&C Please!

[Postman158]

I shot this picture for my Pastor's advertisement flyer for his upcoming concert. Its a live recording for his album entitled "Created for This". We wanted a setting that portrayed something like he was created for worship, and this is sort of what came to mind. I tried editing a little bit different than I normally do, so I'm interested on your initial thoughts. Please and thank you!

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This is another picture we wanted while he was singing. Not sure if I like the color or black and white. Either way, how can I improve on my B&W?

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[SoCalTiger]

For the first picture, it bugs me a little bit that the tree is out of focus. May just be a personal preference, but I would have gone with a smaller aperture and lean him against the tree.

[Joshonator]

I think the editing is pretty good, the first shot his shirt looks a tad over saturated but other than that no problems. A slightly different angle would have improved the first shot I think.

For the black and white decreasing the curve for the whites and decreasing it a bit for the blacks could help.

With your permission i could do a quick edit to show you what I mean.

[Postman158]

Josh, sure go ahead. Thanks for the input guys.

[KmH]

The Beginner's forum is not a C&C forum, and hasn't been for 6 months now. The thread you started has been moved to one of the Photo Galleries - per the Beginner's forum description.

Photography Beginners' Forum
Don’t be shy. Use one of the forums in the - Photo Galleries - Photos submitted by members for general display or critique - section of TPF if you want C&Cimprovement tips on some of the photos you have taken. For equipment specific questions, use one of the forums in the Camera Forum section of TPF. Brushing up on some of the basics? The Beginner's forum is for asking basic technical photographic questions about things like shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, metering modes, focusing modes.

[Postman158]

Whoops, thanks KmH! My bad, been inactive for some time now

[Joshonator]

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Here's the edit, I changed the curves in the way I mentioned earlier, did a little burning on the edges and dodging on the face.