the face portrait is quite nice and there is a rather sombre look about the lad. His hair is rather dark and gets lost in the dark background but very nice other than that.
Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing 5
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. 5
How well does it meet the challenge: 8
Total Averaged Rating(Rounded) 6
The exposure/lighting and pose are all good. Ideally having a hairlight to give the top of his head some form instead of blending into the background could have been good but then it wouldnt be very candid. Not a bad portrait.
A very nice portrait and beautiful skin tones you have a very handsome little boy there Great focus crisp and clean nice lighting if this is your very first portrait I think you have done amazingly well 8