Good Times...

Hi Carol,

I really like the subject of this photo - at a glance you know what you're looking at and you captured a great moment.

Offering a critique; The focus is a little soft - I think you may have a very slight motion blur. I would probably try sharpening the image slightly. His face is soft but rugged so a little sharpening would do him complexion no harm. I would also crop the left hand side of the photo more. This being a digital capture you've cropped the image already. I'm note sure how much wiggle room you have on the crop. He's looking right, so I want him to be to the left of the frame, looking across the frame. We follow his eyes, so we want to drawn across the picture as we look where he's looking.

Taking it a step further, his face is in shadow. But, this is a not a very contrasty image. I would try increasing the contrast by bringing up the black point in levels. Also, you could select his face and neck and adjust up his exposure so he's not quite so dark. Increasing the contrast you would exaggerate the notion that this is outdoors in the hot sun.

All that being said, I really like the moment you captured - I think you could play with this image to bring a little more out of it.