Gold on White...

[David Roach]

Image created just after sunrise on clear morning at Wakodahatchee. I especially love that golden morning light when imaging these white beauties! Cropped from the left to move the eye off center.
1DMKIIN 400DO ISO 400 F4@1/4000

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi David,

Very nice portrait. You managed to keep details in the whites. Looks sharp. I wonder cropping a little from the top would help the image? What do you think?

[David Roach]

Funny you should mention that. As I was cropping in my raw coversion tool (Capture One), I took most off the left and a sliver off the bottom, As the tool shows the thirds lines as you are cropping, I chose the crop that would put the eye right at the horizontal and vertical thirds position. But as I looked at it later, I did also feel a little off the top would be better but never changed it. It was also tough to give up any of this BG!!

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi David,

I think just a little more crop, not much would help the image. :)

[Fabs Forns]

Gold on white or white on gold? :D

Nicely exposed. About the crop, for web use, you can take a bit off the top, not much. For a print, I wouldn't make any changes.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent exposure on the whites, and a super portrait. Well captured David.

[Juan Aragonés]

I like it in the way you posted. Excelent job on the whites and very good composition. This image is perfect for the cover of a magazine ;-)

[Arthur Morris]

Nice image with nice light and a perfect head angle. Great magazine cover but for most presentations there is too much negative space for me.

[David Roach]

Would adding more to the left (which I have in this instance) help? As always, thanks for the comments and learnings.

[David Roach]

I had to reprocess from raw; so settings may not be exactly the same, but I added back the left side and took a sliver off the top per Maxis and Artie's points. Better?