another portrait

[gucio321]

hello, I shoot this one on the weekend Sebastian (http://www.pbase.com/image/5932275/medium) he is my friends' son. I love the expression on his face, I am not to crazy about the background but the original was too bright. I also have a lot of noise in the picture (I was playing with the iso settings the night before and left it on 200). Any sugestions on how to fix the noise, maybe a good place to get some photoshop actions, or maybe just settings I could use. Any help and/or comments will be as always greatly appriciated.

[gucio321]

here (http://www.pbase.com/image/5932751/medium) is the original, personaly I like it better than the one I created I just don't know how to fix it.

[bigdave]

First of all, great shot. The look on his face really makes me giggle. to get rid of the noise, play with either of these two methods in PS.

filter>blur>smart blur
filter>noise>despeckle

For your background, I just played around and came up with one that'll draw the eye to his priceless grin even more.

http://photoscenery.dynu.com/posted/5932751edited.jpg

[gucio321]

that's very cool, it makes him sparkle even more, but it also gives him kind of a "holy" look. :) Maybe it's just me. Thanks for the advice.