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by Philip Grosset



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"Hi Philip, I like to shot photos from 2 years, I read your web pages and I am very intersting about your critic on my mistake in this photos, My camera is nikon 70 and sigma 70-300 lens. I try to increase my ability in order to make good portrait and macro (My douther is a good model for me). Please give me some helps for correct myself in this field. I'm wait for your reply Thanks a lot." (Cesare Stanzione, Salerno, Italy)
An attractive picture. I expect you intended the soft focus effect, but I must admit I'd have preferred the girl to have been just a bit sharper.
Girl

Girl in blue hat Girl cropped
There is very pleasant coloring in your photo on the left, but why have the girl dead central? By removing the sky above her, her eyes can be brought higher, and, in my version on the right, I've also moved her slightly to one side. I find this more striking.
Girl cropped
Girl in field
Your daughter in your photo on the left gets a bit lost in the background, so I'd be inclined to come in closer, as in my version on the right. Also, too much of her face is lost in shadow, so I've slightly lightened the darker side of it! You might have achieved a similar result if you'd been able to use a reflector.
Butterfly Blurred background
On the left: your very effective macro picture. On the right, I've tried blurring the background to make the butterfly stand out even more clearly - but I like your original too.

Altogether, an effective set of photos.




"I was wondering what your take on my photo would be. My name is E. Vincent I live in Los Angeles, CA. This pic was taken with an Olympus OM-1 in Myrtle Beach SC. It was just after Dale Earnhardt had died and there was a NASCAR CAFE near my house...I went over there one day and started taking all kinds of pictures...these are my two favs..." (Elizabeth J. Vincent)
Flags cropped
Flags
Your photo on the left has very appropriate darkening skies, but it looks just a little cluttered, and it's a pity that the buildings on its right side seem to be leaning over. In my version on the right, I've concentrated on the flags, and lost the leaning buildings.
Car rearranged
Car
It was a very good idea to include the hugging couple in your photo on the left, but it might have been even better if you had managed to move nearer them, so that there was less space between them and the car, as shown on the right. It would have been better still if you'd been able to move round further so as to include more of the car covered in flowers in the background. But you did pretty well to get these pictures. This type of news style coverage is never easy.

Reply from Elizabeth J. Vincent: "I like what you did with the flags it was a hard picture to get I had to stand on this little tiny wall...but such is photography..=) I do have a cropped out version of the sad people hugging ..it was hard to get closer to them...seeing how I didn't know them.. Thank you so much for your feed back it means a lot to me...sometimes I feel like I'm not getting this photography thing..this really made me feel better about my technique."

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