Subject Stand Out? :)

[nicole77]

Hi guys, please help me with this picture. i like the expression on girl's faces, but not sure if any of you will look at the faces straight away like me or you get lost in the messy background? please let me know what you think! or any other thing wrong with this photo! Thank you so much!!!



Camera: Canon 50D
Aperture: f5.6
Shutter speed: 1/400sec
focal length 75mm
ISO 640

[Barbara V]

I was taken by the girl's expressions right off (and the 2 going barefoot).

[nicole77]

Cool! Thank you so much! make me feel much better now! coz i really not sure by myself!

[JoesPhotos]

Rule of 1/3s. Immediately the human eye is drawn to the intersection of a picture divided by 3 both horizontally and vertically. Basic rule of composition.

With that being said, You do lose a bit with the background being more close to the intersections, the thing that "saves" the photo is the fact that the girls are in focus and the background isn't.

[nicole77]

Thanks Joe! from taking your point, i tried to crop the image, put girls eyes on 1/3 horizontally, but then it will be quite tight on left and right... and should i make the background blur more by photoshop? will that look better you think?