I shot this today with a D70 and Nikon 35mm 2.0 lens set on aperture ISO 1600 aperture priority, and f/ 2.0 with the shutter speed around 1/125 spot metered on my son's face. I wanted a blurred background, so I put him in front of a bright window with white blinds and opened the aperture wide open.

It's cropped slightly. What do you think?

I really like the exposure. Handsome boy, but I'm having an issue with his thumb in my eye, :) sorry, but it draws me away from his face. Too distracting for me. Otherwise I like it alot.
CJ

I agree, the arms bother me. Even though I see both, I get a weird sensation that he's armless. His thumb hand is not visibly attached to his body and the focus is so drastically different from his body that even though I *know* it's his hand, it still gives me a weird, disembodied sensation.

His eyes are perfectly in focus, and I like the light very much.