Lusting for food

[rossi46]

Just a candid shot of my son looking at some bowls of noodles.

Please critique and advise,...thanks alot

[hminx]

Love the pose, but I would prefer this cropped so your son and the middle bowl was the image, with the top and right hand third lines intersecting on his fore head. The other people seem to detract from the image.

[rossi46]

Thanks for the feedback.

Ah..cropping, its always been a major headache for me most of the time, I usually spend alot of time doing different crops, not sure of which looks best. I find using rules of third does not really help me. Most of the time when I try applying rules of third, it seems to look odd. I also have big problem of always trying to include as much as possible sometimes.

Anyway, I had done two different versions of crop, one of them based on your suggestion. I did the second photo because I thought it looks balanced with my son looking to the direction on the left, and there is space to the left for him to look into.

Let me know which is better. Thanks