Michigan Part Two | Family and Kids Photos | Photo Forum

#1. Love the light and colors in the first image. I like the contrast between the sunset reflection and the darkness on the foreground. The one thing with I would change is to aline horizontal lines of the bridge. 

#2. Your wife is so beautiful! Looks like you have some yellow fall trees going on on the background? We don’t have too many of those in LA. You got nice bokeh in this photo. I would maybe pose her a bit differently. I would turn her more to her right and open the face to the light and let the shadow frame the face instead of light. Here you have example of the broad light (The side of the face that is getting the most light is the side turning towards the camera). I would like to see how short light would look. Very often it is more flattering then the broad light. So your wife is so beautiful, that no light can really mess her up, lol. I probably would also change her hand positing. It is a bit lonely out there, almost like it is not her hand kind of growing out of her head. Hand position often can make or break a portrait. Hands gestures can tell so much. Also very often it is the hardest thing to pose. I hope you don’t mind the critique. It is just my thoughts on this and how I see it. 
What do you think? 

I know how it is Patrick. When you are out and about, you don’t think about all the details., especially with people. You just want to take a picture. I feel like that sometimes too. But since it is a learning forum, I do have to give some constructive critique, so others can learn. I hope you don’t mind.