In The Kitchen

Adrian,
A comment that your subject would benefit from...your use of 35mm FL on your EOS1n at a very close distance to the subject resulted in 'perspective distortion' caused by camera position. The result is her right arm looms massively large in the frame while the left arm is tiny...that does nothing to present your subject in an attractive manner, it only emphasizes the size of her upper arm! Back up, so that there is less 'perspective distortion'.

To illustrate, these two dolls are IDENTICAL in size, yet one takes up four times the area of the frame, due to the extreme proximity of the lens to the closer subject!

@wiltw thanks for the feedback, yes, I know.

That lens was chosen because she was being lit by a reasonably dim overhead light and I needed a fast lens. As it is, if you look closely enough, her arm has motion blur as the camera still probably had to keep the shutter open for close to 1/15th to get an acceptable exposure with that lighting.

I didn't back up because I didn't want the rest of the kitchen in the frame, and didn't have enough film surface to really crop and end up with a reasonable amount of resolution/grain, so that was the compromise.