Play with me...

I took my daughter to the park the other day to get some shots of her playing. After a while, she got upset that I was taking pictures instead of playing with her. She said "Daddy, play with me" in a sad tone and sat on the swing. I took this last photo, then the camera went back in the bag. I felt so bad... I thought the black and white would help to set the sad mood of the photo. Comments and additional processing welcome.

Thanks!
- Tom

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Very good capture of the mood, and yes I know the problem

I know that feeling well.... I miss alot of good photo ops because I would rather play with my grandson than anything.... but I get plenty of pictures too

Nice photograph...you can feel the moment with her head hung like that.

Oh you can just sense the sadness in this shot! Great capture!

Beautiful shot. The B&W captured the mood very well. In 10 yeas she will appreciate this picture, maybe not now. I like the composition of the picture.

John

Great shot
I also know what you mean, I get told off a lot for bringing the camera everywhere we go!

A sign of a dedicated photographer!

Maybe we should make an effort to leave the camera behind sometimes as well though

Thank you all for the comments!

KO_300D wrote:
Maybe we should make an effort to leave the camera behind sometimes as well though

Yes, we should... It's tough something because you don't want to miss those precious moments. But what I have learned is that every moment I spend with my daughter IS a precious moment, so there is no way I'm going to capture it all with my camera!

One other thing about the photo:
How is the contrast, brightness, etc... I processed this image on my laptop, and I know the contrast on my laptop screen changes when my angle of view changes. I'm working on getting an external monitor for processing images, but for now, I have to live with the laptop LCD.

Thanks everyone!
- Tom

I just adore this picture.

The contrast and brightness looks good to me IMO. But I know there will be different opinions on it.

Art

Wow, amazing shot. What type of post processing did you do becuase everytime I try ISO 400 i get really grainy shots.

The only post processing that I did was I converted the image to grayscale, and adjusted the contrast a little.