I would crop the top portion of the photo to make it more compliant with the Theory of 3rd's with her head in the top horizontal and her knees in the bottom horizontal line. The skyscraper is distracting and I think you really want me to focus on the girl. You have a beautiful model. Show her off in the best possible way.
Hope this helps.
ejmcceney wrote:
I would crop the top portion of the photo to make it more compliant with the Theory of 3rd's with her head in the top horizontal and her knees in the bottom horizontal line. The skyscraper is distracting and I think you really want me to focus on the girl. You have a beautiful model. Show her off in the best possible way.
Hope this helps.
For #1, the cranes are the focal point of the photo which *happens* to have a person sitting on a bench. I like the fountains in the background, however.
Many times, the adage "Get close. Then get CLOSER." holds very true. Same here. Get closer to your subject (via focal length! Don't get in her face with a 15mm wide angle!) so that we know what the subject of the photo is. As mentioned, if you cropped #1 horizontally, it would be much stronger.
#2 has really flat lighting and her expression is not going to win any awards. She doesn't look happy.
Franklin, there are some good suggestions already. The key to the shot is thinking about the background before you click the shutter.
Consider it carefully and move around until you get the best place to shoot from.
You want your model to really stand out against the background.
Look for brights and darks. Your model will stand out well if
She is the brightest part of a dark frame. Imagine her against the dark green foliage.
She is the darkest part of a bright frame. Imagine her against the blue of the sky.
The background is OOF and she is not.
The background is exposed differently than she is.
Avoid
The tree growing out of her head (you didn't have that problem)
Leading lines that lead the viewer's eye out of the frame. (horizontal line of fountains)
Distractions (the skyscraper)
It's worth saying it again - Consider the background carefully for each shot.
FranklinRomero wrote:
Is this what you mean by the crop? take off the top part of the crane and building, and kinda seem to center her more in the picture?
With that 18mm on the D90 you must have been very close to her feet, which is why the feet and hands look out of proportion to the rest of her. With that lens, try backing off from her, take the shot, then crop in PP.
Pandacat wrote:
With that 18mm on the D90 you must have been very close to her feet, which is why the feet and hands look out of proportion to the rest of her. With that lens, try backing off from her, take the shot, then crop in PP.
Plus all the background stuff Jim said.
Larry
+1 poor choice of perspective, unless you really want that big foot foreground look.
agree on the BG comments and on the need for fill too. she's too pretty not to get it right
