Jessica

what do you think of the cropping and the photo in general, I took this

photo this past weekend 27th of March at Joel Grimes Photography

workshop. Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.

2:40:1 cropped verion in portrait folder.

Sal,

You requested comments on the cropping of this photograph.

You could give her a little more room on the top and bottom, especially the top. With the way you have posed -- crouched down, she looks like she is being a bit squeezed into the middle of the photograph from the top and bottom.

If you really want to shoot her in a horizontal format, I would have cropped a smidgen off the right side. The photograph is a little left heavy. Your subject should have more room in front of her than behind. This allows her to be facing into the picture, not out of it. You want to compositionally balance the left and right sides of the photograph. The compositional "rule" for this suggests that you position the tip of the subject's nose in the vertical center of the photograph. By positioning the tip of her nose in the vertical center of the photograph you not only have her facing into the picture, but you have good left and right compositional balance. The tip of her nose doesn't have to be exactly centered, but this gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced. This little rule almost always works well.

She is a vertical subject shot in a horizontal format. A vertical format would seem to be a more logical choice. There is quite a bit of space on each side of her with not much in it to add to the portrait. It doesn't help tell the "story" of your subject.

This is just a personal opinion, -- as all critiques are -- but I find the  2:40:1 cropped verion in your portrait folder less appealing than this version. I don't see a reason for this long skinny horizontal "panoramic" version. There is just too much wasted space on each side of her that doesn't help the portrait. Everything in a portrait should be there for a reason, even empty space.

She is a pretty girl, though.

Nice shot,

Mark

It is great when you attract Mark to critique your work. It is a free lesson for all of us. Thank you Mark!!!  Sal gorgeous model.  Warm regards.

Yes, I agree, in agreing with Mark a 100%...

I ' working in a new cropped version and getting rid of the green colorcast that I didnt see before until it as point out by Steven Seeling on the other version.

Just so you guys know, I am color blind, and I try to by my instincts and looks good to my eye...one thing the doctor said is that I cant see greens.

But I like the challenge and love the help and input of your comments :)

Thank you!

Warm regards to all. :)