Well, as far as the technical "how to get this stuff scanned and onto a site" thing, I'm not your guy.
After what I'm about to say WRT your photo, well, you'll probably still think I'm not your guy <vbg>.
Here goes:
There are things I like about it. I like the two boys off to the right. Far right watches with a sort of feigned "whatever" look, when I think he's really into the whole thing. A sort of fake aloofness if you will (kids think they're so good at that, but we adults know they're not really...)
The middle boy, as you say, seems at once interested and repelled by the whole thing.
I like the out of focus target, and the way it works with your camera angle, almost directly behind the boy shooting the arrow.
Unfortunately, it's due to that angle that things sort of fall apart for me. Other than the title, it's really hard to see what the bow and arrow boy is doing. Yes, I know we can see the target, but that's really not enough of a clue for people like me <g>. I can't tell what he's up to.
We also can't see anyone's face - not that that's always a bad thing, but in this case, I think that much of what's happening in the kids' minds could be reflected on their faces. I know you were trying to get all three of them in the shot, which idea has some merit, but in this case, it might have been nice to get tight into one or more of their faces, or at least much closer than you were.
Even though I posted previously saying I hate it when people tell me "I would have taken the shot such-and-such a way", I'm going to come perilously close to doing just that.
Next time, maybe forget about the target, and get beside the kids (like to the left of the shooter). Try to get all three of them in profile (it looks like they would have been nicely lined up for that). With a bit of moving around, you might have been able to capture much more emotion than you did. I think you saw a scene with lots of great elements, but didn't know what to do with it - that's the impression I get anyway.
This isn't a bad shot, but to me (and this is just a personal opinion), you're really close to raising it from a backyard snapshot to a statement about boys and their toys. I think you wanted to, but for whatever reason didn't exactly know what to do.
OTOH, you may have shots on your disk that are closer to what I'm thinking, and if so, it would be great to see them.
And, again, I'm not saying what's ~bad~ about your shot, just thinking of looking at things differently if you're presented with an analagous situation in the future. Hope you don't mind the critique.
And, of course, consider the source of this (me). I rarely know much about anything, let alone how to take a picture. <vbg> Let the real photogs on this list tell you how to do it!
cheers, frank
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From: bransky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: First PAW -- Boys watching their friend use a bow and arrow Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 14:45:57 -0600
Hello all:
OK, Stan, Frank and Boris encouraged me to post a photo, so I went over to Walgreens (a US drug store chain, chemist for our friends in the UK if I recall), and for $4 got some of my negatives scanned onto a CD, then used a freeware program called EasyPhoto for my Mac to reduce the file size. No cropping, etc. I really have no idea what I am doing with this digitizing stuff or if there are better ways to compress the original image. The original print looks better but so be it.
Anyway, here's a picture I grabbed in the backyard last summer. I liked the way how the posture of one of my son's friends showed how he was interested in yet repelled by the bow and arrow. Here's the link, I think it should work.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2190917&size=lg
Suggestions, critiques, help welcome.
Thanks,
Aaron Bransky
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