[stupot]

I took this of my nephew Alex on Boxing Day, about one of the only photo's where he'd sit still anyway i'd be interested in feed back on how i could improve this, either this shot in PS or next time i try to capture him

[Dabhand16]

I think this is pretty much OK, except the shadows on his eyes and chin from the high flash position.

[nichpr]

I guess I would suggest rope and a good blindfold............ oh, not that kind of capture?....
You might think about laying a white sheet on the floor and pretend that you are having a picnic if he poses the way he is now the sheet will act as a reflector to bounce some additional light up in his face without him even knowing it.

[Rob Barron]

I'm not keen on the over-lurring that you've used, but that is just my own taste I guess. I know blurring is used a lot with portraits as a simple way of getting rid of imperfections in the skin and such like but photographically I think it looks unnatural as the eyes are perfectly shape yet the fingers next to the eyes, at the same distance from the lens, are blurred. The detail of light on the tongue is also nice and sharp but this is much further forward from the distance to the eyes yet in between we have a blurred area, the same applies to the shoulder line of his right shoulder (left as we look) which is again fairly sharp yet is quite a way behind the eye plane. So we have three different planes of focus with blurred areas in between, impossible to reproduce naturally in camera.

Does that all make sense, it is a hard thing to describe properly.

Looking at this purely as a picture and not thinking about its technical aspects, it works very nicely and has captured a cheeky moment from your nephew that you can use to bribe him big time in years to come so WTG

Cheers,
Rob