T Mango in Red

Hi Doug, first thought - bold. Then came the questions: why the treatment? why the left crop? Looking at it for a while got me past the high contrast between the skin tone and red dress and even started to like it. In fact, quite a lot.

The pose and expression is great (must have been a fun model to work with). I can't get used to the left crop, though, but understand that we need to crop somewhere, the question is where. Maybe the decision would have been easier had her right arm been across her waist, slightly zoomed out and the pictured framed as half-body.   

this is a neat pic only two things I don't like.......

1....the logo is a minor distraction

2....I hate hate hate the crop on the boob

please show different crop

The unfortunate truth is that she was altering her poses so fast, and contorting her body so much,  that I couldn't keep her in the frame, and the left crop is an in-camera result of my slow reflex.  I generally strive for the biggest image capture possible, and this is a case study of when there's not enough room in the viewfinder to allow for a dynamic model. You can see her head is trending toward the right edge, while her body is trending toward the right. 

However, in all honesty, it doesn't bother me that much.  Her face is the point of the image.  To widen the crop would be to move her face further to the right, or to make her image smaller.  I'm saying this defensively; on first viewing I felt the same, that the crop was flawed but I obviously don't think of it as an image killer.  

There'is also a technical side to this crop relating to the autofocus functions of the camera. In other words, I was tracking on her head, which was darting in and out of the focusing points in the viewfinder.  Live and learn...