Evaluate my crop please...

[Familiaphoto]

Hello all....

I've been playing with the pic below, a what I think to be nice candid shot of my wife and son. I've done some cropping and a B&W conversion on it but still feel the crop is off. Should I get rid of the window at the top, is it distracting? I've dodged it a bit, but going any further with the dodge tool past where it is now makes the window look fake?

Any C&C is welcome and thanks in advance.

[Familiaphoto]

Boy, now that I see the shot on the forum I realize the depth of field really has my son's face blurry, maybe I'm not as in love with the pic as I was. :(

[BillsBayou]

It's still a good shot. Candids are difficult to capture with perfect focus.

I'd crop out about 1/2 of the window. That'd put your son's eyes about 1/3 down and your wife's eyes about 1/3 up. I'm not trying to be precise on the rule of thirds, but I scrolled your photo off the top of my screen and it really does work.

[Familiaphoto]

Great advice, below is where I ended up. I cropped out a bit more of the window, sharpened my son's face a bit to put it a bit more in focus and dodged the window a picture frame a bit more.

Thoughts?

[bob393]

Yup much better!

[BillsBayou]

You also cloned out some of the window dressing. Good work on that. It looks much better.

[airfrogusmc]

Actually if you crop into his head just above his eyebrows you loose the window and put more emphasis on the other person.