Photoclubalpha

Dont usually do pics of people im more landscape and wildlife but had a go today
Any feedback would be appreciated

They seem ok too me but I'm not a very good people shooter either. I think that people shooters try to blur the background a little more perhaps by shooting with a longer focal length plus more open f-stop but like I say I'm no expert. I was fooling around with the 100-300apo (trying to get a shot at a bird) and Hally my grand niece was playing chopsticks with her great grandad on the outdoor table so I snapped a couple of shots with my bird lens, I had never used it to take people shots with before but I was reasonably surprised with the results, it blurred the background nicely I thought so I would have to think more about how I take people shots now myself, but using long lenses on people is not as easy as shorter ones in all circumstances for sure I think.
Greg
A100 KM100-300apo(D) F56 ISO400 1/125sec f5.6

Hi Kelly - I'm sure there will be some proper people shooters along with good advice, but my suggestion would be to crop in tighter on the subject. Unless you want to print quite big images you could probably crop in quite a bit using your post processing software. I think the first one is the best. It seems the most comfortable pose. I like Greg's suggestion of blurring out the backgrounds more as well. In the second the loss of his feet is a bit distracting. I can vaguely remember DK had some advice about what proportions of bodies were typically used for portraiture - e.g. head and shoulders, waist up, etc. Ankles up doesn't look right, just imho