Too much of a close-up?

Thank you everyone! It's hard to only look at your own screen and see the photo there. It might be totally off, so it'll look totally odd on other monitors. So thanks for the input, then I know I'm aiming in the right direction when I'm lowering the reds (and yeah, I think that's what the red stripe is for! )

Ballen Photo, thank you for your input!! Yeah, I don't normally want to crop that close, but then again, kids that age doesn't give you much time to photograph them until they run away and the moment is totally gone.

This is the other shot I got, before she ran away and wanted to play with my two Siames cats that we had out in the garden for "a cat walk".

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They're both nice shot and she is very pretty. I like the second shot the best. The skin tone seems warmer to me.

Good job! I think they are both very nice, but I like the first one better.
pam

It's a Canon thing . To boost slightly reds (well, I don't know about 10D, 20D, or MarkII)

Those are very beautiful pictures. Very very beautiful !
And the pictures looks just fine

Too close? No way. It's great. I love the crop/composition and the color. She is a very pretty young lady too. I am awaiting the delivery of my LSII so I'm glad to see this. I think it's really very nice.

Very nice! You did just fine.

Great shots Cyberpet. I would say you hit them right on. Very nice work. Look very natural with color and contrast being right on.

if i were you, i would try to remember exactly what i did to achieve these pix. exeptionaly nice work, in my opinion. great job!

Thanks everyone. You guys really boosted my self confidence!!

pompano64, well I do remember the settings in the camera for those shots (1/200 s, f/5.6, ISO 200, focal length 165 mm)... but I do suffer from sometimers, sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget. So when I'll be in a stressed situation my brain will go blank!