First Post, First Submission

[scottws]

Howdy Everyone. Been enjoying reading and learning. Thought I'd start to participate a little...

Here's a shot of my youngest daughter. She's very photogenic and my oldest daughter's and my favorite "model." I thought this shot came off very nice. Taken with a Nikon D40 (which belongs to said oldest daughter) set on auto (what can I say, it's smarter than me!). No post-production.



(Clicking it takes you to a bigger picture)

Thanks for looking.

[xxpinballxx]

I think it looks better in the larger version....its a nice shot but being centered and the subject being darker than the area around her tends to leave a bit missing from the photo.
However a crop and a bit of brightening of the girl would bring it to life.....Nice to have a willing subject though....and this is defintely one you can get to reshoot...at least till shes 18!

[subrataofkris]

Hi Scott,

The wonderful backlight, your beautiful daughter, the bushes and colour makes this picture very good indeed. I looked at the larger picture for a long time. If you are interested in other technical stuff, I would suggest you to crop a bit of the right side so that she is moved a little towards right. If you get another chance to photograph your darling model, and use other settings than auto, try using a small flash to light up her eyes. She is so cute.

Thanks for sharing

[RexK_Cozumel]

Nice picture over all some minor details to change for next time if you get the change to reshoot something like this... Try to get in closer. You can crop it in on this picture but then you lose a lot of pixels and will start to be limited on your print size. (This is definately a photo you want hanging on your wall) Consider offsetting your subject as pinball noted. For this shot I think that it would be perfect to have her on the right side of the frame since her body is facing to the left. Again can be achieved with a crop but....
Also this would be the perfect time for an off camera flash. Since the sun is coming in from behind her it casts a shadow across her face and body making that part of the picture underexposed. (If you were shooting in manual or use spot metering you can expose properly for your daughter but then you will start to blow out the rest of the photo) An off cam flash unit or two to fill in that shadow would make this a perfect picture. It will also add some catch lights to liven up the eyes which look very black and dull in this photo.