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Model Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Date/time original 07.10.2006 13:25:17
Shutter speed value 1/500 s
Aperture value f/8
ISO speed ratings ISO 200
Exposure bias value 0.00 eV
Metering mode Pattern
Flash Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Focal length 70 mm
White balance Auto white balance
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An image like this could go 100 different ways. You could have 100 different critiques from 100 different people. None of it matters - you like the image. Does this 'portrait' give me a sense of the boy in the image? Yes, I think so. Are there things I would change on a re-shoot? Yes. Are there things I would edit differently if this was the shot I had? The only thing I can think of would be to loosen the crop a little, if that's possible. The image feels confining in an uncomfortable way, like the boy's world is so limited...
If I had a reshoot? I would lower my camera angle so I'm not looking down on him. It would open up his world - children need a large world. I would ask the person on the right to move so the boy is not in shadow - children need light to grow.
I guess what I am saying is this feels more like a portrait of the photographer - even the title states that this is your world. Not his. For a protrait, I want to see his world and his place in it - I would hope it would be wide open and large. I hope that makes sense. The image itself is fine - in focus, good toning for the lighting available, composed comfortably; but for me, it doesn't move beyond a candid - the capture of a moment in time. I need more to want to look over and over again.
the horizon is out of frame, so the boy seems paradoxically immersed in the surface of his world, which speaks so well to what it's like to be a boy. 8
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