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Now, for the specific criticism: >>115436 Boring lawn, as I said. No real subject. The best thing in the frame is only half in the frame and she's overpowered by the boring crap in there. The shot basically has no composition at all. It looks as if it were taken by accident.
>>115440 You've centered your wife's head right in the middle of the scene, which is a common beginner mistake. Her feet are thereby cut off, while most of the frame is filled with boring landscape and distracting background elements. Get closer, and fill the shot with her. See my previous post for some pointers on how to separate her from the background as much as possible. Also, tell her to take off the stupid sunglasses.
>>115445 This is the closest one to good composition, but there are still a lot of mistakes. First off, I'd have taken it in portrait orientation and left her knees, purse, and empty coffee cup out of it. Second, I'd have moved her a bit--the light that's hitting her is *not* flattering. If you look at her right eye, it looks fine. Her left looks like you've been beating her or, at least, that she hasn't gotten any sleep in weeks. The hard light leads to a really bad bad shadow under her eye. Additionally, there's a bright highlight on her shoulder. Her shoulder should not be the main attention point of the photo. She's moved her glasses out of the way, and that's good, but they're still on her head, and that's bad.
>>115456 Distracting background elements are distracting. A lot of it's just that I'm a photographer, but my eye's immediately drawn to that telephone, then the bright red guitar, then the thermostat on the wall, and the plant is positioned such that it appears to be coming out of the top of her head. Her pose could use some work, too. Make use of that beautiful hair. Show off the cleavage more. Accentuate the curves. She doesn't look like she's posing so much as she was reaching for the phone and was too lazy to walk around the piano.
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