first post - nephew bw - c&c please

[bmoguy]

I was playing around w/o flash in a not very well lit living room while my nephew was occupying himself. He noticed me laying on the floor and made a bee-line for the camera. This is one I got as he was heading my way.

http://www.groman.com/images/evanbw2.jpg

I like it but was wondering if anybody had any suggestions for improvements I might be able to make.

thanks

[Citizen_Insane]

Maybe the blacks could be a little darker and the whites a little lighter, but besides that the focus, DOF, and composition are really good.

[Rhinotherunt]

Looks cute! Nice image!

[SezzySue]

he is beautiful. i love the soft focus effect

[saqib]

nice

[bmoguy]

Thanks all for the nice comments.

Maybe the blacks could be a little darker and the whites a little lighter, but besides that the focus, DOF, and composition are really good.

I was wondering about this, but when I made it darker I lost the additional detail in the lower left of the picture - it was all black. I've played with a couple of different ways of converting color into bw, but the one that seemed to work the best was using the Gradient Map. Is there a better way?

Thanks again for the comments

[bmoguy]

I was wondering about this, but when I made it darker I lost the additional detail in the lower left of the picture - it was all black. I've played with a couple of different ways of converting color into bw, but the one that seemed to work the best was using the Gradient Map. Is there a better way?

Just bumping this to see if anybody might have an answer for this.

thanks