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    Smile Memorial Day

    Howdy all! Just getting up the nerve finally to start posting some stuff I took over this last Memorial Day. Any and all comments are welcome. After all, that's why I'd post in the critique forum, no? :-) But anyway, I digress. The photo was taken with a Nikon N80 and basic Nikkor 50mm lens. It was Fuji film, but I actually don't remember what kind exactly, neither do I remember what the shutter speed, aperture was, etc. I know, I know, how to learn without knowing. :-) I always have to remind myself to pay attention to that stuff. But anyway, here it is........basically untouched, with the exception of cropping and pushing the saturation some in PaintShop Pro. My main question is, is it too saturated? I love to have color that POPS out at you, and was a little disappointed in the lack of POP that my pics had when I got them back from the developer......

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    I too enjoy colors that POP... *smiles* I read your intro over in Viewfinder and I'm glad to see that you are enjoying photography. I think this picture is decent, but a little busy, it is also a little bright and perhaps just a little too saturated. It looks like you cropped the pic a bit and I would suggest cropping it a little more... take out the part of the boy on the left and crop almost up to the foot of the boy who is the main subject of the pic. Also, I would like to suggest thinking about what the purpose of the pic is... for example, this pic makes me think of how much fun it is to play in the water at the pool....perhaps if you were to do a close, close shot of just the boys foot over the water... it's an alternative way to look at the pic, but I appreciate how crowded it must have been at this pool and how hard it was to get such a good shot. There is really nice action and reaction here and the expression on the boy's face is great. I look forward to seeing more from you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smitty001
    Howdy all! Just getting up the nerve finally to start posting some stuff I took over this last Memorial Day. Any and all comments are welcome. After all, that's why I'd post in the critique forum, no? :-) But anyway, I digress. The photo was taken with a Nikon N80 and basic Nikkor 50mm lens. It was Fuji film, but I actually don't remember what kind exactly, neither do I remember what the shutter speed, aperture was, etc. I know, I know, how to learn without knowing. :-) I always have to remind myself to pay attention to that stuff. But anyway, here it is........basically untouched, with the exception of cropping and pushing the saturation some in PaintShop Pro. My main question is, is it too saturated? I love to have color that POPS out at you, and was a little disappointed in the lack of POP that my pics had when I got them back from the developer......

    Greg
    I agree with darkrainfall about the cropping etc.. It is a wonderful testimony to a summer day! Nice shot.

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    While the colors do pop, I think the colors are a bit over the top, with the skin on the main subject's face much too red. The scene is very busy, which is OK considering where you are at, but possibly moving over a bit to either eliminate the part of the boy on the left or to show more of him, might help the composition. Focusing on the center boy and having an aperture of 2.8 might have thrown the background out of focus to lessen the elements that compete for attention. Decent effort.

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