Engagement at Hermann Park

Critiquing the bosses images?  I must be nuts! 

Overall exposure looks good.  The horizontal crop accentuates the straightness of her leg and really does nothing to strengthen the image.  I would try a vertical crop.  Way too many hands and the hands have too much tension in them.  The hands should flow not look like the couple is holding on for dear life.  Her expression is one of ahhh, safe once again in the arms of my lover.  Whereas his expression says I'm glad the Packers beat the Jets last night. 

I would have stepped over about six feet to camera right so their shoulders would not be at such an extreme angle to the camera.

Benji

Nah.  I'm here to get better too.

I didn't want to put this in the original post, but this shot was almost totally accidental.  Normally I start a session with a few shots where I'm not really trying to get the shot, but just trying to get the clients used to having their picture taken.  This is one of those shots.  Turns out it's one of my (and their) favorites from the session.

The fountain was intentional.  It's a pretty well known landmark in Houston and I tried to get it in the shot.  Had I been six feet to the right there would have been traffic in the background instead. 

edit:  After I wrote that it seems like I'm making excuses.  I'm really not intending to and I really appreciate what was said. 

While I agree with Mike's comment to "take them over there and shoot them", you could also have shot from a higher angle and gotten some separation between the iron fence and the fountain.

The three legs and then all of the arms and hands make it difficult to figure out where to crop this from the bottom.  I don't like his legs, even without hers.  He just looks like his position is too uncomfortable and his right arm is just reaching too far. 

Perhaps raising her knee and having her turn her body into his more or having her sit between his legs . . . I have to admit that I am really not sure about correcting this pose.

Ed