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Yes, my youngest daughter....GIVE IT TO ME !!!

These are a good start; a couple of thoughts: (1) Try and engage the child and have her look toward the camera. Not always right down the lens, but at least toward it and try and coax a smile out of her. (2) Watch your backgrounds. Selective focus has rendered them reasonably soft and diffuse, but there's still enough clarity to make them distracting at least to some degree.

Just my $00.02 worth - your mileage may vary.

~John
 
These are a good start; a couple of thoughts: (1) Try and engage the child and have her look toward the camera. Not always right down the lens, but at least toward it and try and coax a smile out of her.

You havent met my daughter yet, I see :lmao:
She is not the smiley type in front of the camera.

(2) Watch your backgrounds. Selective focus has rendered them reasonably soft and diffuse, but there's still enough clarity to make them distracting at least to some degree.

Agreed. #1 is fine, but on #2 the junk on the right side is bothering me too.
 
You could benefit from some fill flash or a reflector.
 
A reflector is high on the priority list, together with a diffuser and a decent flash.
My wife shot these basically as snapshots ( with some thought) so a reflector was out of the question.
A bit of fill flash next time then.
 
With the amount of light I see in the background, I bet you could have gotten away just fine with holding up a white bed sheet in front of her. Your subject is just really dark and dull.... the highlights in her hair and background over-power the shot.
 
Like I said, these were spur of the moment shots.
This one will not pose for pics. All you can get is candids, so fill flash would be the way to go. My oldest is 13, so she is the designated model when we get into some real portrait photography :lol:
 
Like I said, these were spur of the moment shots.

To be fair, it really isn't worth much to critique the technique of "spur of the moment" shots. Such shots really don't have any technique behind them, therefore, nothing to crituque.

You did say that they were "some snapshots (with some thought)". I would be curious to know what thought was put into it. If I knew what exactly you were thinking about, I could critique that and ignore everything else.
 
If you would have read the OP, it says my wife took them. Her idea was to catch the highlights in her hair and the way she sometimes seems to sit there and ponder.

But I think I have had enough pointers here. Fill flash or reflector to bring out the subject a bit more and watch the backgrounds.
 
With backlit subjects, you do need to consider fill or bounced light to properly expose the subject. I have a 12x12" grey card. It folds up rather small and stays attached to my camera bag. The one side is grey and used for custom WB and on the other side is white. The white side can easily be used to bounce some light back towards the subject for head shots.
 
would one of those foldable silver/gold reflectors be good for this job ?
They aren't all that expensive.
 
Sounds logical. If there is no light to bounce back, there would be no use for a reflector ;)
 
Sounds logical. If there is no light to bounce back, there would be no use for a reflector ;)
If there is no light to bounce back ...... it's nighttime. :D Even on a dull overcast day, a silver reflector can brighten up your subject.
 
I know what I'm asking for my birthday then !!
Well, I would like to ask for a 70-200mm F2.8.....but I guess a reflector will have to do :lol:
 

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