Morning in the woods - C&C please

[nes_matt]

Hi all,

Had a great morning out in the woods with the family today and took these. No PP except on one I removed serious glare from my daughter's glasses. Some are as framed in the camera, some cropped.

I can see they all have focus issues, especially the ones with both my wife and daughter. Need to work on that. More patient subjects (particularly my wife) would help me get that right.

This is my first C&C post on POTN. If there is anything redeeming in these photo's it is due to my lovely wife and daughter (if I do say so myself) and to what I've learned from perusing the C&C's of other's photos here. I've tried to take what I've been learning here and put it into practice.

This is our first time out with the camera since we bought it 2 weeks ago or so.

Credit where credit is due: my wife took the one with me and my daughter. I'm hoping there is special dispensation for posting other's shots when the "other" is your spouse?!

Thanks,
Matt

ETA: sorry... I didn't realize the file size limit... I'll put them somewhere else and link.

[nes_matt]

1)
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0365-small.jpg

2)
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0360-small.jpg

3)
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0367-glareremoved-small.jpg

4)
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0378-small.jpg

5)
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0385-crop-small.jpg

6)

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0390-small.jpg

[nes_matt]

Here's the full frame of #5. I really liked the stone step she was sitting on and wanted it to form a line at the lower 1/3 frame, but she seems too small relative to the frame in this crop. Any ideas how I can keep both (unfortunately I chopper her toes off too).
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee300/mattanddeane/Doanes%20falls/IMG_0385-small.jpg

[jase1125]

Here's the full frame of #5. I really liked the stone step she was sitting on and wanted it to form a line at the lower 1/3 frame, but she seems too small relative to the frame in this crop. Any ideas how I can keep both (unfortunately I chopper her toes off too).

I would crop by locking the aspect ratio and starting from the top right corner and come down to right above the hairline.

You didn't have image editing on or I would show you an example.

[nes_matt]

I would crop by locking the aspect ratio and starting from the top right corner and come down to right above the hairline.

You didn't have image editing on or I would show you an example.

Thanks, Image Editing is turned on now. Like this?

[jase1125]

Yes to me that is better. At least she fills a larger portion of the frame. You might move her a little more to the right of the picture, but not center to see if that works a little better.

On #6 if you would have metered on the brighter area, locked the exposure, recomposed and used your flash then you could have exposed you and your daughter better but not blow the highlights on the bridge and waterfall. At least I think that would have worked better ;)