Been practicing some headshots

i really like the composition, lighting is right on, catchlights are good... it seems like you didn't quite nail the focus though. theyre not soft but when seeing it large on your flickr it looks like you got the tip of the nose a little more than the eyes. aside from that, you've got this down. very nice.

Looks like both are in landscape mode rather than portrait. Tops of heads are perhaps unnecessarily cut off.

2 is OOF.

Thanks for the feedback guys, still learning and perfecting.

Nats: thanks for the kind words. Yea the focus was hard to nail down with the nifty fifty at 1.8.

Russ71: I shot them landscape and cut the tops of their heads off on purpose because I want the emphasis to be on the face.

Dano: true

Being OOF is not necessarily a dealbreaker for shots like this. And, these are not classic 'headshots' per se, those would usually include the whole head. These would fall under the 'portraits' category, and they do a fine job in that category. I would suggest you also try for some dramatic look B&W's with these, they would be some killer portraits.

a lot of portrait photographers use the landscape style for headshots now, Peter Hurley comes to mind specifically but plenty others do that as well. it all depends on the client and the use.