portraits tight crop

I know its kinda cheap to crop tight, I ran out of ideas. How do you

like it?

I think it's a great portrait. In portraiture surely every face is unique, every composition is unique and every expression is unique. I am new to digital darkroom tecniques and don't understand what you mean by "a tight crop is cheap"?

Chris

I was the type of beginner who cropped tight. I did it automatically. I saw on my photos, that tightly cropped portraits looked better than the ones that showed more of the body and the surroundings. As I learned more and more, I realized, that coming out requires more knowledge in posing, lighting, and subject separation, colors and textures. I am still in progress practicing these things, and I will be for a long time.

I meant cheap, not becouse these kind of portraits are cheap, because they can be quite powerful. I meant that these kinda portraits require much less pain in the butt to do that half body or 3/4 or full body portraits...