I have been a veritable elbow chopper. Many times I have closed in on the faces, going for expressive content, excising mere graphic pizzazz, leaving the elbows outside the frame to fend for themselves, out in the cold, so we could see more of the faces.

I am prejudiced against small prints. An 8x10 of this picture would show a nice graphic design involving some people with faces comprising a very small part of the surface area of the print, pretty small to expect to read anything from, really.

I like big prints; I'd make a 20x24 of this portrait. I like a print that includes all the surroundings of the people, so the composition can come to the fore without drowning out the human content. I like the design element of Elizabeth's elbows out, and the curve of the chair repeated by her shoulders. A large print permits the scope of surface area necessary to fully utilize both the compositional potential of a portrait, and the human/emotional/expressive/facial content that is after all the real point of the exercise.

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