Tender Years

This young child was sitting quietly. I was situated some distance from this young man when Ispotted him. Luckily, I had my 70-200 mm lens, which spends most of its time attached to my camera. After some quick adjustments to settings, I raised the camera, aimed towards my young subject, his gaze into the distance changed toward me and I managed to get one frame before his gaze moved and he was off and about, as young kids do. Overcast conditions allowed the camera to capture all the detail of his face under the brim of his hat, gave a lovely even light and wide open (no squinting) eyes.

It was not until I reviewed the image on my computer did I see the true potential this image held. I had envisaged an image of a young child with beautiful skin and just retaining the eyes in colour. I cannot resist that beautiful, translucent skin young children possess.

Post processing saw removal of all distracting colour, apart from the blue of his eyes, which has been enhanced for dramatic effect.

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