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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 452544" data-attributes="member: 3903">To me the horizontal uncropped version is better because it leaves her breathing space and is less formal than the vertical crop (in this case). For standard portraits, business or obituary, vertical is the usual standard. But for informal shots like this one, horizontal is fine.I took the liberty of circling a few things that are very distracting to me in this case. When I look at a picture, I like my eyes to rest on the eyes or the person. And when there are contrasting points around the face, I find my eyes just go back and forth and can't stop moving around in the image. So with this in mind, I circled the stuff I found distracting and then did a bit of photoshop edits (just using the brush on a layer to literally paint out the offending distractions) and added a bit of burning to create a bit of a vignette.Here's the original with distractions circled out:[ATTACH]156855[/ATTACH]And here's after the retouching:[ATTACH]156856[/ATTACH]I think this kind of small stuff makes the image more peaceful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 452544, member: 3903"] To me the horizontal uncropped version is better because it leaves her breathing space and is less formal than the vertical crop (in this case). For standard portraits, business or obituary, vertical is the usual standard. But for informal shots like this one, horizontal is fine. I took the liberty of circling a few things that are very distracting to me in this case. When I look at a picture, I like my eyes to rest on the eyes or the person. And when there are contrasting points around the face, I find my eyes just go back and forth and can't stop moving around in the image. So with this in mind, I circled the stuff I found distracting and then did a bit of photoshop edits (just using the brush on a layer to literally paint out the offending distractions) and added a bit of burning to create a bit of a vignette. Here's the original with distractions circled out: [ATTACH=CONFIG]156855._xfImport[/ATTACH] And here's after the retouching: [ATTACH=CONFIG]156856._xfImport[/ATTACH] I think this kind of small stuff makes the image more peaceful. [/QUOTE]

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