CC on the newest test shoot?
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Oh, these are cute! Maybe too much background on the left side. Did you crop off any extra from the right side? I think the balance would be better if you could move the frame a bit to the right.
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Moved to the appropriate gallery. Please note that the Beginner's Forum is not meant for image display or C&C.
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No worries; we don't catch them all right away.
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The kids look great, you engaged them and got them smiling, etc. I'd think about the perspective. If you want to have something like the bush in the photo how much should it obscure the kids? Go out and practice without kids and think about how to set it up, how will the background/foreground look in the photos? too much brick? not enough? too close to the top of the frame maybe? The brick in these creates lines leading out of the frame, from the head of the subject in the first one going both directions.
Practice seeing everything in the viewfinder. Your photos look like you're seeing the subject but not necessarily the backgrounds. Think about how you might need to change your vantage point - learn to see, and then move your feet (yourself) and change the vantage point. I want to take a step to the right to get the kids' feet in the picture (especially a little girl wearing cute shoes).
Your photos look like there's been improvement and I'd suggest more practice time, just you and your camera, thinking about what's in the frame before you press the shutter button. Think about what do you see? where do you see lines and shapes etc.? and how will that work in a portrait? Which way looks better if you change your vantage point? a step left or right? closer or farther back? With practice it gets to the point that you don't have to consciously think about it so much and you'll get better at framing shots and using backgrounds and foregrounds and get better compositions.
Practice seeing everything in the viewfinder. Your photos look like you're seeing the subject but not necessarily the backgrounds. Think about how you might need to change your vantage point - learn to see, and then move your feet (yourself) and change the vantage point. I want to take a step to the right to get the kids' feet in the picture (especially a little girl wearing cute shoes).
Your photos look like there's been improvement and I'd suggest more practice time, just you and your camera, thinking about what's in the frame before you press the shutter button. Think about what do you see? where do you see lines and shapes etc.? and how will that work in a portrait? Which way looks better if you change your vantage point? a step left or right? closer or farther back? With practice it gets to the point that you don't have to consciously think about it so much and you'll get better at framing shots and using backgrounds and foregrounds and get better compositions.
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The kids are cute. I like the idea underlying this framing and pose. I agree with Designer that a bit more space to the right hand side of the frame could have made these a bit stronger. My first impression though is of missed focus. The apertures of f/3.2 and f/2.8 caused the DOF band to be a little bit too narrow to show the children in 100% crisp focus. The small leaves on the shrubbery are rendered pretty well, and that by comparison makes the kids look a bit soft. I really think that f/5.6 would have made these totally POP! with clarity.
On the positive side, I think using the fairly large OOF shrub at the bottom on the frame, and the three-tier masonry stuff is a clever composition for these shots. Perhaps framed a wee bit too tightly though. The girl needed a bit more head space, and their feet are rather close to the corners of the frame, which adds a bit of tension.
Vintagesnaps has some good commentary regarding shooting people pictures, and a short checklist of some of the things I also mentally ask myself every time I set up a portrait shot. How far away? What do I include? What do I exclude? I think you did reasonably well at the composing and the framing on these two shots, but the f/3.2 and the f/2.8 aperture have put the kids' faces just in front of the sharpest focus zone.
On the positive side, I think using the fairly large OOF shrub at the bottom on the frame, and the three-tier masonry stuff is a clever composition for these shots. Perhaps framed a wee bit too tightly though. The girl needed a bit more head space, and their feet are rather close to the corners of the frame, which adds a bit of tension.
Vintagesnaps has some good commentary regarding shooting people pictures, and a short checklist of some of the things I also mentally ask myself every time I set up a portrait shot. How far away? What do I include? What do I exclude? I think you did reasonably well at the composing and the framing on these two shots, but the f/3.2 and the f/2.8 aperture have put the kids' faces just in front of the sharpest focus zone.
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