C&C Portraits Please

[speedneeder]

After reading through some stuff on post processing and taking advice from my last portrait posts, I decided to 'redo' some portraits I took last November. I would like to have more contrast from the background, and maybe that's something I could 'fix' in processing? Any suggestions for improvements?

The focus on the far eye is off in this one... not sure if that's a bad thing though? I guess since I'm wondering if it is, it probably is!


This is one of my favorite pictures of my daughter.

[rob marshall]

Good shots. I prefer #1 as it looks more relaxed. I think you could have gone in even closer and made a real feature of the facial features, and a square crop seems to suit. Just my opinion.