Cropping

I'm not very good at portraits & i didn't know about the rule of avoid cutting off limbs. I still want to keep the loose composition; but i want to save this picture any suggestions?

I would also like to keep that little green fringe out of the picture which is at the bottom of the frame.

I would also like to keep that little green fringe out of the picture which is at the bottom of the frame.
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Chris
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Nice shot. It lacks pop, which is easily fixed in post. I opened it and avoided doing everything in LAB, but just stuck to basic RGB changes.
Here's what I got:
And here's what I did. First I adjusted the curves so they looked like this:
I then boosted saturation and applied photo filter 81 at around 25% opacity (don't remember exactly). I then set the crop to 10x8 and cropped a bit tighter, which I think helps.
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Here are the curves. Notice that the B curve I moved the center point over to bring up the yellow, since her skin had too much magenta relative to yellow. I also made a little move in the blue to take out the blue cast on her shirt, from the sky.
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Chris
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while not absolute, a general rule of thumb is to chop a limb midway between the joints. so, you did fine
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i think it was you who told me "midway between the joints"
Chris
Detroit Wedding Photography Blog
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