Another random girl @ the beach...C&C Please

So these are a few more candid shots from the beach. They are processed using Lightroom 4 only. I shot them at 200mm (70-200 f4 L) f16 & f8 (to preserve sharpness at that distance) w/ shutter speeds ranging from 1/200 - 1/2000 (IIRC). Anyway, this girl was just over a football field away (maybe 120 yards) so these images have been cropped a good bit. To bring them back I processed fairly heavily...I'm happy with how they came out and might print a selected few. I'd be interested in getting some feedback on what others think of these. THanks for looking!

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girl is way too small and the last couple are under exposed
stormy cloudy days make for some of the best lighting... no hot spots and no shadows

It's a dramatic setting. Too bad you couldn't get closer. As it is, her portion is too small to add to the drama of the image. Since she's oriented to the left, the shots where you have her centered or on the left are weaker from a composition point of view.

Pixil Studio wrote in post #14620584
girl is way too small and the last couple are under exposed
stormy cloudy days make for some of the best lighting... no hot spots and no shadows

The last two are underexposed because they are Unedited. I included those two images just incase someone on the forum wanted to take a shot at editing them...

It was a bummer I couldn't get closer, but it was all water/ocean from where I was standing to where she was sitting. I was watching this scene for a while before I started shooting and thought it would make a cool image...

pic 4 - Best one for me. My eyes gets drawn to the girl right away. I would have cropped in more. Moving her closer and a little bit to the left. Probably cut the seaweeds on the lower right. My eyes is going to the girl and the sea weeds. I would cut that and focus on the girl.

I do hope that that is not swetsastonic's wife

(LINK by way of explanation)

I love the second pic. But, as sad as it will sound - lose the girl.

really good composition, but in my opinion you did not need the girl, also some tweaking in P/S or similar would make the images better.

i have to say the first one for me.

Appreciate the feedback....I just might try and clone the girl out..see what that looks like

neil_r wrote in post #14623745
I do hope that that is not swetsastonic's wife

(LINK by way of explanation)

what I was thinking

dbvirago wrote in post #14626022
what I was thinking

it was my wife, now give me your CF card now!!!!!

skater911 wrote in post #14626852
it was my wife, now give me your CF card now!!!!!

HAHAHA!!!

There was no shooting from the hip whatsoever on these...!

I'm actually totally fine with the girl being so small. A fragile human being in the middle of all that fury and chaos is sort of making for a powerful image, and I think it's totally valid to portray the person as only a very tiny part in all of that. That's actually what makes these images so interesting to me. However, these images are too small. These should be printed and printed big.

As far as composition, it looks like peoples' answers are all over the place. Personally I prefer #3. That big monstrous wave on the left adds a lot of impact to the image, and I like how the waves on the right and left are sort of almost framing the girl.

im siting here wondering WTH she was doing out there lol