life on the farm closeupII

any comments welcome.

I would like to see more of the eye.

I'll agree with the previous comment insomuch as I am somewhat bothered by the cropping of this photo. This cropping, which is neither really close on the eye, nor wide enough to show the shape of the head, is awkward. This middle of the line cropping combined with a lack of contrast/tonal range give the photo a flat, nondimensional feel to it. There needs to be more depth leant to the subject either by the above-mentioned methods alone, or perhaps combined with a slight change of perspective, especially since the eye, which is the apparent subject of the photo is quite obscured by the lashes.

Thank you both for your comments. It will definetly help me in the future. However I did not crop this photo. I took a series of closeup of the subject, kind of like a jiggsaw puzzle.I had no problem getting this close since she is my pet donkey that I use to guard my goats and sheep.

Cheers, Tony.

Just a word of clarification, I may have used the term "crop" to refer to the amount/area of the subject/scene which is shown in the photograph when "frame" might have been a more correct term, as I have no way of knowing whether the image shown is the full extent of the original exposure or a cropped in area of said exposure. "Framing" I guess can be done either with the camera when originally composing the subject or afterward during the postprocessing/editing, whereas "cropping" would be specific to limiting during postprocessing/editing the displayed area of the image in relation to the original exposure.