This was taken in b/w with a red filter, manual mode, high contrast and hi sharpness just before sundown with the sun directly behind the child's head. The picture is pretty much staight from the camera, save for a bit of cropping and changing of the image size.
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Hello Hamish,
I think this picture is highly underrated! I think it should have placed much higher in this challenge. The contrast and composition is just perfect! The DOF is just spot on and the white line going from his lip and down the frame makes this picture what it is. The only thing I would change is to take the couple of white hairs at the top left of the picture. Good luck in future challenges. You've got lots of potential.
Nice silhouette, nice backlighting, but I feel it could maybe have been improved by cropping out the light areas behind the head, which in tern would have removed the image from the centre of the frame.
I like the halo effect under his chin. Perfect title. Not particularly fond of the crop. I like the "chopped" head effect but I think it works better when his head fills the whole frame. 6
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