So I asked my boy if he wanted to play with fire. A more willing model I could ever find! I duplicated the shot and equalized the background. Then I played with the opacity and fill of the second layer to get the right effect without being over done.
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I rated this quite low due to the subject matter that I find unappealing. Children playing with lighters is not a good thing to portray, even just for a contest shot. The light is artificial, which did give you a bit of a step up by one point.
I can see you put some time and effort into this. It's really hard for people to hold still enough to shoot in very low light - you might try a fast shutter speed and then bring up the midtones during post-processing. Unfortunately, this shot is not in as sharp of a focus as some of the others in the challenge. It also looks like there is some digital noise on the sweatshirt. Overall, this is a decent idea that suffers from too many technical deficiencies to score very highly.
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