Baseball Portrait Illustrative style

We had a rare blue sky day here in Beijing I thought I would take advantage of it and shoot my son in his Baseball uniform outside. It was a fun shoot. I shot with two 430 EX flashes shooting through a large white umbrella on camera left. Shot with 24-70 2.8 shot at 2.8 or 4. Love to hear any C&C you might have. larger sizes can be viewed on Flickr.
EDIT: Here is a post of the first shot unretouched out of the camera just to give you an idea of the starting shots

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Cool shots, high speed sync? Theres almost an HDR like quality to the processing, pretty cool. Is their a little league in Beijing? Oh, tell him to get the head of that bat up.

A little far down for my taste and a little too much added fill in post. Second shot is pretty good I think.

i like it.

Nice shots. But I am not a big fan of the pseudo HDR.

SubliM3 thanks for the comments yes this is high speed sync I want to say these were shot at 1/8000 of a second. HSS is way too cool. And yes there is little league in Beijing it is set up by foreigners and we have a few Chinese boys that play as well.

NicholasP thanks for your thoughts I agree about them being a little too much shot up I would really like to have shot them more straight on but in Beijing we just have buildings every where so I found a small patch of sky and made due with it. To get a more straight on shot I would have to drive at least an hour outside of the city.

brumfieldphotography thanks glad you like it

Joe T I understand that this is not to everyone's taste but I am an illustrator by trade and like the more painterly look for my personal things. I do believe it has its time and place though.

Ok I have processed another one in the set I am not sure I like it as well as the others. I like the second one best.

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