Rapport

Does this portrait convey the rapport established between these two

people?

Nice view.

Best regards

Xavier Corcobado

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Tomek,  You have captured the look but you have surrounded it with distractions.  Notice the crop and how it places the faces which carry about 90% of the feeling.  I did not take the time to eliminate the bright reflection lower left and to darken the overexposed coffee cup.

jm

Maybe Jerry's right, but the surrounding explains better the situation and this is what I call life photo, the situation is very important in this kind of pictures!

PDE

Think you're both right:

• the tighter crop really does focus the attention on their faces, which indeed are the key element of this picture...

...but...

• ...it achieves that at by robbing the picture of its environmental context (which I find as undistracting as it gets), so it conveys the same feeling no more, especially that their whole body language plays an important part here, complementing their facial expressions -- reckon it's the entire package that makes it complete -- so not the same impact with the remaining 10% of the feeling missing  ;)