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by igoofry

Comment:
This is my favorite of this subject.

I like the leading lines aspect of the shot. I like her body's angle to the camera. I like the tilt of her head. I love the highlights in her hair caused by the sun. I like the shallow DOF. I like her expression. I like that you used fill flash to light up her eyes.

Very well done, IMO.

IMG_5123.JPG
by igoofry

Comment:
I don't feel like the pose is uniform ... it's like the two people are "individuals" rather than a couple (mom & daughter?). Something is missing that would connect them in some way... their expressions, their poses, etc.

Here you might try taking a step to camera left. Include more of the fence as a leading line up to the subjects and crop the right side which is simply leading away from them.

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by igoofry

Comment:
In this case, too much fill flash was used. You want to balance the fill flash so that it doesn't look like flash is your main source of light. It would also be helpful to move the flash off camera. When the flash is right on the camera it tends to "flatten the facial features" because there are no shadows to give the face a 3-dimensional quality.

I do like that this time the top of the mountain doesn't cut across her head.

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by igoofry

Comment:
Where is she looking?

I generally prefer that the subject either be obviously looking somewhere other than the camera, or that she be looking at the camera. But when the subject is sorta looking in the camera's direction, but not at it, you always wonder what was so interesting for the subject to look at...

I like the play of light on her face here. You angled her head well to allow the light to give her a 3-dimensional appearance.

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by igoofry

Comment:
I like that you didn't let the horizon cut across her chest. But you might have taken a step to your right (camera right) to move her head into the higher mountain (?) area to help frame her head and also turn away from some of the harsher light on the right side of the frame.

A little bit of fill flash, or a reflector, would have helped with the deep eye sockets.

IMG_5142.JPG
by igoofry

Comment:
I like the happy / relaxed smiles here. The crop seems a little bit arbitrary with the one hand cut off.

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by igoofry

Comment:
Pretty good picture for a difficult lighting situation. It's hard to shoot in direct sunlight without either blowing the highlights or losing the shadows and you seemed to do well on both ends here.

The cropping feels wrong with just a piece of the leg on the left side and cut across her chest on the bottom. She is centered within the frame while looking out of the frame.

I do like the position/angle of her body and the angle of her head. And I generally don't mind having the subject look out of the frame. But in this case, because of her position within the frame, I think I would like to have her look at the camera.

Buck & Bokeh
by hahn23

Comment:
This is simply gorgeous. It deserves to be printed really big and hung on the wall!

Flower Power
by Tuckersmom

Comment:
Whoa... each of these images is pretty powerful on its own. All four of them put together like this is just awesome. Very impressive!

Tufa at Dawn, Mono Lake
by Telehubbie

Comment:
Wow! Love the colors!