My daughter

Frank,

You have a beautiful daughter, Frank, and she photographs very well.

Sharp focus - Good skin tones - I love the way the sun falls on her hair (it makes it glow) - great expression

I know she has a naturally lovely complexion and she appears rather young, but I would like to see a little added make-up to her mascara (especially liner - this plus catch lights will make her pretty blue eyes pop) - I think you must have wanted to photograph her with a horizontal format to show the colorful out of focus shapes on her left (they are very pretty), but I think this would work much better as a vertical - Out of focus objects work very well behind a subject, not in front of it - You do not want to have to look through something out of focus to see your subject: This is a photographic "rule" (one of those rules that can be broken, but only for a very good reason) - Another problem is that some of those (leaves?) that are out of focus are in front of her face (you don't want to do this) -She needs to be more in the center to balance the composition (the rule of thirds doesn't always work for portraits) - If possible, I think you should crop below the neckline of her top (this gives the viewer's eyes a place to stop so they don't follow the "V" or scoop or whatever shape of the neckline out of the picture) - If you can't crop below the neckline you should burn-in that area at the bottom of the picture a bit to try to give the viewer's eye a place to stop.

Just for fun: I don't know how young she is, but if she was my daughter, I would have her hair done nicely, have her put on full make-up, and shoot her like a model to see how she looks. I think she would photograph very nicely.

Very nice shot of your pretty daughter,

Mark

P.S. If she was my daughter, I would hang this picture of her in my den in a second!

The blur in front is fantastic. Out of focus elements in the foreground give this image a spontaneity and mood that is very enjoyable. Furthermore you did a great job composing them. I like the assymetrical composition. I like seeing a distiguishable face on one side fading into a colorful abstraction on the other. The out of focus elements help focus the viewer on her eyes and their color is complimentary as well. This is a great stylistic element. I know for a fact that a lot of clients would gush over this. Beautiful! it feels like the memory of a warm summer day. If this was a photograph of my daughter I would consider it a treasure.