Where Should I Crop?

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by jdepould

I think shifting the frame over to the left would work well in this instance. Obviously, you can't do it now, but for future reference. It'll give her some space to reach into, and lend itself nicely to a horizontal image. The right side of the frame isn't doing anything for you really, all that's there is her shoulder, and while it may be nice, it doesn't exactly draw me in.

This looks like an 8x10 crop though.

Thanks for your feedback. I do wish I would have captured her whole right hand. But I did learn from this photo shoot.

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by trelaflip

Ya this one is kind of tough. For what you have to work with I think this might be the best. You could crop in closer but it would be a shame to totally remove her hand because her facial expression goes along with the rest of the pose and body language. If that makes sense. Just got off work so I'm a little out of it lol.

That does make a lot of sense!

Thanks so much for commenting....

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by agresbach

i'd agree with the last few comments that i dont find anything wrong with this shot at all. if it had been more of a posed shot indoors or something i could see it being more of an issue. However this to me looks more like a candid moment you caught and it worked really well. cropping it any tighter you'd loose some of the great colors in the background that i think compliment her nicely. May i ask what settings you used for this? (aperture, shutter, etc) good job

Thanks so much for your feedback!

I used aperture priority and used my 50-200 mm lens at 130mm. ISO at 100 and shutter speed at 1/640 speed. Hope that helps.

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by RoyL

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this shot, the tight framing is perfect. Take my word that if you had included the chopped limbs it would not have looked right.

The object is not to get everything in but to have a composition that draws you to the subject and this has been achieved well. Spend some time looking at images in fashion and womens mags and notice the number of images with cut limbs, cropped heads, etc.

And where were all these gorgeous young ladies when I left school.

Thank you so much for your comment. I guess I am going to have to look in some fashion mags because I didn't know that. LOL

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by Daoust

I was gonna say crop the top a smidgen because her hair is a bit poofy, but don't do it if it makes the shot look off kilter.

eta. Your grandneice has beautiful eyelashes.

I ended up having this printed and they did crop the head more than I like, but it still came out nice.

BTW, her eyelashes are fake ones. LOL But she's the type that doesn't wear a lot of makeup and to me really doesn't need to. But she put them on for this photo shoot along with some lip gloss. Must be nice to be young....

[agresbach]

Originally Posted by ShepherdLady

Thanks so much for your feedback!

I used aperture priority and used my 50-200 mm lens at 130mm. ISO at 100 and shutter speed at 1/640 speed. Hope that helps.

thanks for the info! you dont happen to know what the aperture was set at , do you?
if not no biggie. i was just curious because i liked how your DOF turned out

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by agresbach

thanks for the info! you dont happen to know what the aperture was set at , do you?
if not no biggie. i was just curious because i liked how your DOF turned out

Yes, I set it at 3.2. Sorry I forgot to put that in.

There are other shots of her on my flickr page and if you click the more properties you'll see the exif data.

[agresbach]

Originally Posted by ShepherdLady

Yes, I set it at 3.2. Sorry I forgot to put that in.

There are other shots of her on my flickr page and if you click the more properties you'll see the exif data.

thats about what i was going to guess. thanks!

[ShepherdLady]

Originally Posted by agresbach

thats about what i was going to guess. thanks!

You're quite welcome!