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orianaComment by eschelar: Tricky bit of framing on this one. I can't help but get the feeling that you wanted to show the moment captured, but that you actually didn't get the edges on the bottom. Perhaps a clever border might have helped balance this pic a bit different/better (?).
The line from the foot/leg/arm to eyes is effective, and suggests the square crop, but the rest of the content of the pic doesn't quite match.
Also, I'm sure you don't need to be told that it's backfocused, but that pulls my eye's attention to the left. My entry was also backfocused since it was taken on my first day with my cam and the lens I got was faulty. I addressed this by applying a bit of gaussian blur to the areas that were erroneously in focus, then coming back to treat the rest of the image as to sharpening and contrast and such. There is a lot of leeway with the image size on DPC.
Also, the boy has a few very strong dark features in his face. It might be improved to use a tiny, tiny bit of careful dodging to help bring attention to that area.
Overall, there's enough good here that it's easy to see why this was your choice for 'hidden gem'.
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