Its cold!

Southbound33 · Jun 28, 2015

The things I like about this pic:

Its clear, it shows the emotion of a little boy who is cold and distressed, its symmetric, the water drops on his body, its an un-edited picture

The cons:

His lips look a little too red, I don't like the wave going through his head, he looks fat because he was kindve pushing his stomach up with his left arm, his hair is too dark, I took the shot looking down when the shot would have looked a lot better with some kind of background. The area around his teeth look really bad. The white spots around his forehead is totally my fault. The wind/sand was relentless. Sand got into everything, and a proper cleaning is needed after this.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Fred Berg · Jun 28, 2015

His skin colour looks very warm (orange), perhaps you need to adjust the white balance for such shots if this is what your camera does in auto setting. Perhaps you already have one but, if not, get a grey card and use it to set the WB manually.

Jasii · Jun 28, 2015

You've been your own critic mate!

barring the WB I quite like the shot.

Southbound33 · Jun 28, 2015

Took care of some of the issues, let me know what you guys think

vintagesnaps · Jun 28, 2015

Is this sand or water?? It's better, he's less orange but the background's more blue. Maybe your exposure was off. Looks like a picture you'd like for yourself (one of those kid moments) so might be worth adjusting, otherwise I probably would pass this by. If it's worth working on, it might just take some time to get it adjusted.

Southbound33 · Jun 28, 2015

vintagesnaps said:
Is this sand or water?? It's better, he's less orange but the background's more blue. Maybe your exposure was off. Looks like a picture you'd like for yourself (one of those kid moments) so might be worth adjusting, otherwise I probably would pass this by. If it's worth working on, it might just take some time to get it adjusted.

Its where the waves wash up onto the beach so its a mixture. All my pictures are just for memories and personal satisfaction but I still want them to be good before I store them away. Could you possibly do an edit here so that I can see what you did and learn from it?