My twin daughters

[luckymomoftwins]

I took the photo of Alexandria at the water park the day after I got my 20D. I was just fooling around with it and trying to learn the camera. I love the expression on her face but think the shadow at the bottom left is distracting and needs to go.

The B/W is of my daughter Sydney, Alexandria's twin.

Any thoughts or comments on how to improve would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jennifer

[pcDigiMan]

I have typically keep a 580EX flash on my camera-20D. The flash gets rid of shadows in the bright sun.
Does anyone know how to calculate how far a flash fill will cover in on a lets say a sunny 16 day - what is the formula? Guide number, assume sunny 16 and 100 ASA.....

[Don Ellis]

I took the photo of Alexandria at the water park the day after I got my 20D. I was just fooling around with it and trying to learn the camera. I love the expression on her face but think the shadow at the bottom left is distracting and needs to go.

The B/W is of my daughter Sydney, Alexandria's twin.

Any thoughts or comments on how to improve would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Jennifer
Hi Jennifer,

So many views, so few comments... so I'll say something here.

This is an unexceptional shot of exceptional girls, so let's figure out what's wrong. Everything in Alexandria's photo serves to take your attention away from her -- red pipe, blue pipe, fence, small shadow you mentioned (least of your problems, really :)), and running out of frame even though she has no feet.

I think you may not have gotten too many comments in Photo Critique because most people expect to see a decent photo that can be mildly improved on. What people aren't saying here is that you've got a 20D, free film and two lovely girls so go take a few hundred more shots and post something that is a better reflection of your talent and their beauty -- don't post the first throw-away shot out of a new camera.

As for their being twins, you've done your best to separate them -- different photos, different colors, different moods, different sizes. If you want them as twins, put them in the same photo, don't chop off their feet (or if you do, make it closer to their waists), and make us fall in love with them.

Do your best and show us something new in a larger size.

Good luck.

Don

[DxHatchback]

it's really hard to give you any advice with the images being small

a good image should be at least 800 x XXX

the image on the left looks pretty good besides the blowout to the right of her face

as stated, the image on the right is way too distracting. if you want to save the image though, i'd just clone out the shadow to the left of her legs

[DxHatchback]

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amr5015/alex.jpg[/url]

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amr5015/alex1.jpg

two simple edits i did
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[david lee]

What a simple thing to do.... Edit out a bit of shadow..... Anyone who has a high quality digital camera and does NOT have Photoshop is only using 50% of their kit in my opinion. The two go hand in hand and THATs the whole point of digital imaging in the first place.