Hands

This is my first try at this sort of image,added a pastel filter in ps and made it b&w,looking for C&C,i think it looks quite good but what do others think and can i do anything to improve it.

thanks......Andy

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I like this!
You've got just the right amount shown in the scene - not too much and not too little.

The tonalities are also "right on" starting with the very whites down into the deepest shadows. It looks like you did a lot of playing around with it (from the histogram) and ended up with no clipping at either end.

Difficult to do for most people.

Congratulations!

Great detail. I think I'd like this better in color, but that's just me lol You did perfect on the grey scale as no detail is lost but not to blown out either on the white. Nice

Beautiful soft baby hands. Nicely done. It might work as well a tad brighter, but the softness of the image is appropriate for the subject matter.

I am not so keen on the tone, it looks rather unnatural, i am no expert on new born bairns but the finger nails look a little odd.
I do like the framing and subject and also wonder how it looks in colour.

Thanks folks for the comments very much appreciated

thanks... Andy