Cropping Portraits to Create Professional Looking Images (with Examples in Lightroom)

Cropping is one of my top priorities when editing photos. I'm scanning the edges of the image, hunting for any little pop of color, light, line, distracting object, or crooked horizon line that might distract the viewer's attention away from the main subject, the star of the show, the hero of the shot, the main reason I was paid to take photos. My clients pay me to take pictures that make their kids look incredible. They might not notice the extra work I put into the background details but what they do notice is that they LOVE the pictures. If I skipped the mindful cropping, they might feel mysteriously less in love with the images and they might not be able to tell me why. This is a very subtle attention to detail that makes A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

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