Senior Shots

[MVPhotography]

This is another senior shot, one of many of course, and this is another shot where im border line on if its good enough to give to her in her bundle cause im not sure if its sorta boring? Anyway thoughts on more improvements etc Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 42 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

File Size: 1722 kB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 2198
Image Height: 2195
Encoding Process: Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample: 8
Color Components: 3
X-Resolution: 96 dpi
Y-Resolution: 96 dpi
Orientation: Unknown (0)
Software: Picasa 3.0
Date and Time (Modified): 2009:09:20 03:08:47
YCbCr Positioning: Co-sited
Exposure Program: Aperture-priority AE
Date and Time (Original): 2009:09:20 03:08:47
Date and Time (Digitized): 2009:09:20 03:08:47
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Focal Plane X-Resolution: 3954.23341 dpi
Focal Plane Y-Resolution: 3958.762887 dpi
Custom Rendered: Normal
Exposure Mode: Auto
White Balance: Manual
Scene Capture Type: Standard
Image Unique ID: fcaea90d9474054c80bb4bcf9f0bf80b
Focal Type: Unknown (3)
Canon Firmware Version: unknown
Serial Number: 2520713794
Canon Model ID: EOS Digital Rebel XT / 350D / Kiss Digital N
Original Decision Data Offset: 0
VRDOffset: 0
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Color Temperature: 2381
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Color Tone: Normal
Compression: JPEG (old-style)

[cphoniball]

Drop the aperture and increase the shutter speed. I'm surprised it's actually not more blurred than it is (it's pretty damn sharp overall) but her hair is blurry in places, presumably because it's blowing in the wind. Also check your white balance, on my monitor it looks like she has a yellow color cast.

Compositionally it could be better, although you did do a good job at making sure there were no distractions in the frame. You could have done any number of things to improve the composition - move her off to the left of the frame, shoot down from a different angle, get in closer get just a headshot, etc.

[16braddog]

I Think its still usable, I would just crop in more to get rid of the bright white light on the left of the picture. Other than that I like the pose and the background. Good job!