Grandfather and Granddaughter at Break in Wedding

LeroyPK · 07-26-2008, 09:12 PM

I was second shooting a wedding for a friend when I saw this shot. The window is huge camera left and was an east exposure at about 2 PM on a very sunny day.

EXIF data includes:

Pentax K100D
f/5.6
1/80 sec
ISO 200
55mm
Pattern metering

Original was 3 times larger in both height and width

Let me know what you think and if there is anything you might suggest to improve it. (I actually like it the way it is, but if I don't submit it for suggestion, I'll never know.)

Thanks for your helpful criticism.

Leroy

heliphoto · 07-26-2008, 10:25 PM

It's a very nice photo. If it were mine, I'd consider cropping a bit off the bottom so the grandpa's arms don't look so thick. Either way, I'd be happy to have it in my album if they were guests at my wedding (for all I know they were guests at my wedding - man I knew very few of those people...)

LeroyPK · 07-26-2008, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by heliphoto

It's a very nice photo. If it were mine, I'd consider cropping a bit off the bottom so the grandpa's arms don't look so thick. Either way, I'd be happy to have it in my album if they were guests at my wedding (for all I know they were guests at my wedding - man I knew very few of those people...)

Would you crop similarly over head too?

*LaRee* · 07-26-2008, 11:31 PM

I can see Josh's point about the arm. But I think if you crop some off the bottom, it will move them too close to the center of the image (vertical), and if you crop off the top, you'll lose the the corner leading to the window which somehow adds to the composition for me. If you crop off the top I'm afraid it wouldn't be as obvious they are looking out a window. Maybe play around a bit with different crops and see what you think.