[Mike McCarty]

Mary,

What I'm about to say may not be relevant to the way you work from your photographs, but, I'll mention it just in case.

This image below has been framed so wide that it can cause problems for you getting the detail you need in face, hands etc.

The good thing about having so much information is that you have more possibilities when composing the image. The downside is that if you don't also zoom in closer for individual detail shots there may not be enough resolution left when you try and enlarge those details.

The last image is a crop of just the face. I think you can see how the crispness fades away even though it was cropped from your largest file.

When I'm thinking clearly (I have a tendency to do the opposite, I crop so closely that I often leave myself fewer compositional options) I will compose my shot, then back away about 25% and shoot. I will then, as quickly as I can, move / zoom in for close up shots of face, hands, whatever. This gives me the best resolution for details without having to crop down from the full composition.