yo, lately I was doing some shots of my mom and son in garden and have this photo but like you see on original its not to good (nothing special that that it's a shot of my son 'n mom)
I edited some and this is what i came up. What you think ?

It's a big screen so i give a link for slow connection's.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/dsc07288fd.jpg/

Lol -- agree 100%. "zombified' is soemthing I used vs your work, Xan. u

Retain natural skin tones, raise exposure a bit on their faces while adding vignetting (black) or decreasing exposure on the background. That should make it more decent.

btw you'll end up getting unnatural reds on skin - must have been the sun's reflection on some sort of red wall or artifice. 2 ways: desaturate reds ~12% or go for a mid-day feel and decrease yellows + increase greens until the skin looks nice.

With digital photography, there is no such thing :\

see hmm when i punch just a bit expo baby face going to bright also with red's (that was shot in garden under white tant + flash 1/8)
will have to try with diffo setups then, thx for advice

Nope. I always find something I can improve upon.