My daughter

Had some free time the other day so I tried to get some nice photos of my 16 month old, and of course she sat stil for me!

Please let me know what I could've done better.
Thank you!

like them both, 2 is excellent

Light a bit flat. She would benefit from brighter catch lights in the eyes.
In the first photo I'm not big fan of chopped off elbow.
You have a very cute daughter.

Thanks for the feedback and complement. I'll have to do a search for "catchlight", not exactly sure what that is.

do you plan to pp these ....will be excellent

I don't know how to pp yet. I've started using lightroom recently and only know how to do a few basic things such as fill light, adjust exposure cropping. Would pp be done in Lightroom or Photoshop?

It depends on what your goals are.
LR is great for quick adjustments, as you've mentioned - exposure, cropping, some basic smoothing, sharpening, vignettes, etc. You can fix some small blemishes, enhance eyes, straighten horizons.
For anything heavier, you'd probably need PS.

If you're just starting, I would recommend looking up for some LR free presets - there are plenty online - it would give some stuff to play with.

Aleness wrote in post #14658645
It depends on what your goals are.
LR is great for quick adjustments, as you've mentioned - exposure, cropping, some basic smoothing, sharpening, vignettes, etc. You can fix some small blemishes, enhance eyes, straighten horizons.
For anything heavier, you'd probably need PS.

If you're just starting, I would recommend looking up for some LR free presets - there are plenty online - it would give some stuff to play with.

Thanks for the info, I'll do a search for presets. I'm sure I'm only using 20% or less of what Lightroom is capable of...and yet, I would love to upgrade to LR4...which requires a new MacBook (mine is too old).