Portrait of a friend.

[Thomas93]

Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

[Meatshield]

I like it, mostly. The glare on the top left is distracting. Different crop, maybe? Did I mention the glare?
Very nice otherwise, I'm going to try a wide angle portrait myself now...

[kevingeary]

She's underexposed and the glare on the window kills the whole thing. Best advice I ever got was "always check your backgrounds first." If you screw up what's in the background, you ruin the whole shot.

[metoo]

Originally Posted by kevingeary

She's underexposed and the glare on the window kills the whole thing. Best advice I ever got was "always check your backgrounds first." If you screw up what's in the background, you ruin the whole shot.

I agree had she been on the other side of the room with the window light falling on/near here I think it would have been a nice photo.

[ChrisAdval]

Originally Posted by Thomas93

Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

I would re-frame this during the shot to avoid cutting off the hands.And the item/object on the top left corner is very distracting a wide dof would have benefited this photo dramatically and blur out the distracting objects such as the item on the top left of the frame.

[BigFuzzy]

Yeah, she's a bit under exposed.
Yeah, the hot spot is a bit distracting.
But you know what, you spotted, and tried to take advantage of, some really nice light and that says a lot about your eye.
So many people who post here have never spotted or tried to capture such nice light so it was nice to see you spotted it and tried.

I'm also happy that you tried to do something different with the perspective. Most here do the "I'm standing here with camera at eye level shooting from a normal perspective" thing.. you didn't. Kudos.

Now just focus on one more of the really basic things, which is background, which, yeah, kills this image for me. Not so much for the bright spot but because it's so busy and distracting and doesn't add anything to the image, it only detracts. Using a shallow DoF would have helped...but only a little considering how close the subject was to the background.

What I would have done, had I been in your shoes, is to have had her stand up, position her so the sun is directly behind her head so that her hair get's lit up nicely like this and expose for her face... that might have gotten you something like THIS, or THIS which I think are nice simple images in the same spirit as yours (at least light-wise).

Good luck, keep posting, I like what I see going on in your head.

[airgrace]

I agree, a tad bit too much glare. Black and white it, it'll give your photo an entirely different perspective.