Your Two Cents Please

Bryce Wilson

Hope I'm not being to big of a pest here.

My boy wanted some wallets to pass out at school being as his senior year is winding down. Using the tutelage of Hackbone and Jeffreaux I was able to get this from a shoot outside our home Tuesday evening.

Our family is split down the middle on which treatment to use. The "boy" likes them both and is fine with either one. It pretty much boils down to Mom likes one and I like the other.

You decide! PLEASE!

I promise not to pass your name on to my Sicilian wife if you don't pick hers!:D

Number 1
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60399337@N06/5666673767/&quot; title="gradweberick069 by Bryce Wilson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5666673767_efc8d4a91c_b.jpg&quot; width="800" height="571" alt="gradweberick069"></a>

Number 2
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60399337@N06/5666605909/&quot; title="gradsepweberick069 by Bryce Wilson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5666605909_3e06795e8f_b.jpg&quot; width="800" height="571" alt="gradsepweberick069"></a>

Tmetroff

#1 has my vote

Sam

#2 definitely out! Look at those red eyes!

Both are a little soft for me.

That's my 2 cents worth.

Sam

Agnieszka

Numero uno Most definitely ...

Bryce Wilson

Sam wrote: »

#2 definitely out! Look at those red eyes!

Both are a little soft for me.

That's my 2 cents worth.

Sam

Thanks for pointing that out Sam. I uploaded the wrong image on the one and forgot to tweak the reduced sized images for sharpness.

I'll throw this in the mix as the correct number 2 to get an honest result.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60399337@N06/5666605909/&quot; title="gradsepweberick069 by Bryce Wilson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5144/5666605909_3e06795e8f_b.jpg&quot; width="800" height="571" alt="gradsepweberick069"></a>

Tmetroff

I change my vote to the updated #2. His eyes seem to stand out more in that one.
(the color was throwing me off in the older version)

Agnieszka

Hmmm, now I like both and am safe from your I'm sure very lovely Sicilian wife ... But I think #2 has my vote.

Bryce Wilson

Agnieszka wrote: »

Hmmm, now I like both and am safe from your I'm sure very lovely Sicilian wife ... But I think #2 has my vote.

, don't count on it... after 20 + years, I still sleep with one eye open.

Thanks for the input all!

lanaer

I vote for the corrected #2

afev0602

I like the color version, very handsome boy.(young man)

Mitchell

#1 for me. I like the colors.

du8die

#1.

But B&W might be even better than Sepia...

Just sayin'

FlyNavy

#1 by a smidge. Agree for you to try a B and W.

TenThirteen

#1 for me, although I too would like to see #2 as B&W instead of sepia

Tim Kamppinen

#1, definitely.

To me, the first one is a very nice portrait of your son, and... the second one is just another sepia-textured photo. The processing is dominating the image rather than complimenting it.

Icebear

#1.

Z6I

Mi piace il numero uno (thanks Google translator).

zoomer

1 for me.
2 looks better if it is not sitting by 1.

Hackbone

Like #2 and I would put his name in his favorite color.

Bryce Wilson

Thank-you all for taking the time to post your opinion! It appears that #1 is the clear winner.

If you don't hear from me for a few days, you'll know mom didn't take the news well!:D

Thanks again for the input!

Bryce Wilson

Because of comments I decided to try a black and white of this pose.



I like it, but think he looks too hard, which is not his natural look. I also don't care for the white blotches created behind his head by the walkway stones. They don't seem to be as distracting in color.

I had wanted to get a shot of him that showed the gold cross I gave him on his first communion anyway, so a different shirt and slightly different location and I do like this black and white a lot. Even the blown highlights created by the sun behind him in the white shirt work for me.



Thoughts?

Icebear

Z6I

Nice!