Other Little Miss Blue Eyes

[tonetta33]

This is my older daughter (8yo). I like this one but not sure if the leaf in the foreground (above her ear) adds depth to the picture or if it's a distraction.

[xxpinballxx]

I think its a bt distracting and if it were off to the side might not pose such a problem. I like photos where the subject is between the fore and background. Really nice photo though I like the composition as far as the tree trunk and the leaves framing the girl.

[aakash_vakil]

Tonetta, I find it distracting as the leaf is almost merging with the head. It's in that zone where it's nither in focus nor too out of focus.

Regards,
Aakash

[cesar_rosales]

Nice photo, i like the composition a lot. A little bit of sharpening perhaps, to enhance her ayes and face.

[clockdoc]

Did you shoot any in the portrait or vertical format? Beautiful eyes! Nice work in the shade of the tree! Please tell us about your lighting.

[tonetta33]

I took this in the mid afternoon (around 4pm) without a flash...just natural light. I agree with you (all) that the leaf is a distraction in the original photo - it was a fairly windy afternoon so it didn't cooperate. I don't know how to fix it post. I took about 30 pictures total of her in the tree - here are two other favorites. Thanks for your feedback!

[bahgheera]

Hey those last two are great. Seems like there's a yellowish cast to the last one, maybe do a slight amount of color balancing on it but other than that, great job. I think the composition is fine.

Laters...

[bahgheera]

Hope you don't mind, but I couldn't resist loading this up an tinkering.

What I did - simple color balance layer where I turned down the yellow a bit (actually a lot - all the way to +31 blue), and a channel mixer layer where (this is difficult to explain) I turned up each channels color and turned down the others by the same amount. For example, in the red channel I took red up to 120 and blue and green to -10 each. Heh heh, anyway here's my result.

Laters...

[tonetta33]

I don't mind at all that you tinkered! The corrected one looks much better. I'll have to start learning more about post fixes. Thanks!