Wide angle lens plus black and white

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I never have been a real big fan of black and white photography. I see some I like and lots I dont. I thought I would give it a shot and ask you folks what you thought about this image. This is my son we at the soccer field this weekend and I only had my wide angle with me. When I took this this shot I was wanting to see the effect of how the distortion would play effect at 12mm with a close shot. I know that with the wide lens it makes people look funny sometimes or dogs if the are close they have long faces and noses. I used the D7000 Tokina 12-24mm F9 1/125s hand held no flash ISO 100 The high F9 would not be typically used in a portrait but I was taking some landscape pictures and my son came up and I looked through my lens and while looking through the view finder I thought wow this is weird wonder what it will look like, so I snapped away I shot this RAW and used PS CS5 to make some adjustments with distortion both horizontal and vertical. I brought the saturation down. Then I used Nik color effects for a glamor glow effect with about 50 opacity. Then I used photomatix for a bit of tone mapping because I wanted something more out of the photo. It looked to flat. I then copied the eyes and used an unsharp mask to bring out some highlights. This is the end result. zeah by VIPGraphX, on Flickr Please critique