Sometimes cups almost cut boobs in half to the bones, but shop assistants go all ohh-no-dear-bigger-cup-is-too-big-for-you-for-sure. Sometimes band is too tight to such extent that it's painfull to watch, but woman insists it's too loose. Those are crimes against *bramanity* as for me. I don't see any of them in your case. I'd call it lifted and roundly shaped, not really a quad boob. So if it feels really comfortable for you, I'd nevermind.
The other thing is that underwire on the left boob looks like sitting on the breast tissue at the center gore. I get the same on my bigger side with some bras too. Sometimes it leads to sizing up in the cups, sometimes it's not an issue, all depends on how it feels.
So I'd say no, these pictures do not demand *definetely* to size up if you are completely comfortable already, but yes you have to try 32G if underwires poke or if quadding worsens as you move and boobs go playing prison break every now and then.
I guess it's a shape mismatch in many ways. Yes, I'd speculate cups are technically too big. But the reason why you don't get your usuall gapping on top from too big cups is because the vertical sides of underwires go up too much for your breast shape - sort of this bra offers you "U", but you need more like "u", if it makes any sense. And the first photo shows that when such wrong underwires meet your upper stomach they conspire with the wrong cups - resting on stomach underwires sit more diagonally than they should and thus appear "shorter" vertically and closer to your shape needs, and cups fold into IMF and thus hide the unecessary excess of volume. As a result, birds eye view gives you no gapping on top.
And I believe these cups does NOT have too much immediate projection. On the contrary, as for me they have too little projection at the bottom and that's one of the reasons why this bra does not fit you properly.
So I would look for smaller sized but more projected cups (and demi, probably?). Polish brands maybe.
I remember reading somewhere that sometimes, due to sewing error or angry full moon in place, in this particular model the ribbon at the upper edge of the cup (brown one in your case) is a culprit responsible for cutting into tissues and feeling-too-small issues. And that removing or easing the ribbon improves the overal fit. It's hard to tell on photos but it could be not too hard to check with your fingers whether it's the whole upper part of the cup's fabric or just the ribbon that might be too tight. But in general it does't look as bad fit for me, so I'd rely on your comfort level and your shape (aestetics) preferences, if Arabella's fate in your closet hangs in balance.
For the sake of pure science, you could try to get 28F in this model, but I'd do it only in case of 100% hassle-free return guaranteed. Because despite your feeling cups being too small there are wrinkles on them already. I guess 28F, and 28FF for sure, will bring no relief you expected but more wrinkles, which you'll try to compensate by tightening the straps which, in turn, will bring more massacre to your underarms and also result in cups-too-tall-damn-them-all problem that petite frames get far too often.
So gather your strength and tell Claudette it's time to leave, yes she's pretty, yes you wanted to love her, but this match was not made in heaven, no cries.
Just to be sure, any chance that you try to swoop and scoop an upper part of your pectoral muscle (http://static1.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/0/5/2/large2/250036.jpg) into cup? I don't insist but on these your photos it looks like one, and neither fat nor breast tissue. I fail to see any major quads worth mandatory correction, especially when you say the bra is 'super comfy'. Is there an elastic on the top edge of the cups? Sometimes it could be a guilty party in causing quadding, and sometimes easing the elastic or removing it completely could serve as solution. Do wrinkles on cups' bootom near the gore happen off-camera or they are just on photos?
I'm not aware of what's the story with 30 bands here, but from these photos alone I'd say the band looks too tight, thus cups could probably sit not exactly right. Hence it's hard to say whether gaps are caused by cup size or cup shape mismatch problem, or maybe both. I'd definitely try an extender before deciding what to do next.
According to your and bra measurements band itself might be ok for you, but it could feel too tight due to cups being too small. I'd try 28F in order to relief tightness and check any possible cup shape mismatch issues.
Can you make a front and profile pictures with your arms down and back perfectly straight (without putting shoulders too far to the back and expanding the ribcage too much)? Because yes, shallow cups on supposedly projected breasts usually DO give a oomph, which is not happing here. From these pics I'd say cups are slightly big and I'd try 32E.
I agree that band is too tight and therefore sits in the wrong place, so, yes, I'd start with 1 size up in band.
As for cups size and gore, it's hard to say at the moment which problems are caused genuinely by them and which ones are side-effects of band currently being too tight.
Center gore could be sitting in the wrong place because it's too high for your shape. A smaller cup most likely would have a lower gore and could resolve this issue.
I believe wrong band size is responsible for the empty fabric at the bottom of the cups and, probably but not necessarily, for the straps feeling too far apart.
On the side view underwire seems to be too wide ending somewhere way beyond you breast edge. It could indicate that cups are too wide and/or too big, but it also can be result of too tight band that distorts the underwires' normal shape. Poking is an expected result in either case.
On the first picture it looks like some of the breast tissues escape the cups creating sideboobs. Maybe it's just a matter of angle at which the picture was taken, but if these sideboobs are present off the camera, then I'd go 1, not 2, cups down for starters, i.e. 38HH--->40H.
I don't insist that your breasts are universally tall, it could be a issue with this particular bra model that you don't encounter with others. The upper part of the "tall breasts" usually looks like the steeper slope comparing to "non-tall" ones, and it seemed to me like your case. My guess that with this bra you don't experience the major "tall breasts" problem, i.e. cutting into the upper breast tissue, probably because in addition to shape mismatch the cups are also slightly too big. Not a whole cup size though, that's why I don't think changing the size would be a solution.
You have enough tissues at the point_1 to fill the cups when you stand straight - cups gets kind of "spread" over your boobs that are "spread" on your chest. But since you have less to "hang" at point_2 than this bra's author kept in mind, you get the gaps on the sides. When you pull the straps up to compensate the gaps, the cups become too small because such pulling pressures your breasts to become "taller" and "spread" even more, i.e. putting you further away from bra's target shape. By pulling the straps to the center you don't allow the cups to "spread" and thus you accentuate the lack of "hang" breast tissue to fill them as they are supposed to. I'd guess that when you slouch or bend your shoulders forward, you also get empty fabric for the same reason.
3-section soft cup bra could be either the blessing or the curse, because I think they tend to be not-so-forgiving to the shape mismatches. I suspect the key of the right fit is the shape and size of the upper cup part, and the angle at which it joins the other two.
It's shape mismatch. This model seems to be for boobs less tall than yours but more projected than yours. With more projected ones cup would be more pointed in forward direction, so underarm part would be set completely different than it sits on you. I'd say changing size would not solve the issue, it's just not your type of cup shape.
I don't insist but on these your photos it looks like one, and neither fat nor breast tissue. I fail to see any major quads worth mandatory correction, especially when you say the bra is 'super comfy'. Is there an elastic on the top edge of the cups? Sometimes it could be a guilty party in causing quadding, and sometimes easing the elastic or removing it completely could serve as solution. Do wrinkles on cups' bootom near the gore happen off-camera or they are just on photos?
I don't insist that your breasts are universally tall, it could be a issue with this particular bra model that you don't encounter with others. The upper part of the "tall breasts" usually looks like the steeper slope comparing to "non-tall" ones, and it seemed to me like your case. My guess that with this bra you don't experience the major "tall breasts" problem, i.e. cutting into the upper breast tissue, probably because in addition to shape mismatch the cups are also slightly too big. Not a whole cup size though, that's why I don't think changing the size would be a solution.
I'd say the heart of the issue here is the proportion between breast part that "sits" on chest wall (and makes boobs "tall") and part that "hangs" freely (and gives "projection").
Here is a picture of what I mean - http://i.piccy.info/i9/9cc6b2b136f0418c137aea4ef78f7c58/1432906743/68264/853477/prop_female.jpg
You have enough tissues at the point_1 to fill the cups when you stand straight - cups gets kind of "spread" over your boobs that are "spread" on your chest. But since you have less to "hang" at point_2 than this bra's author kept in mind, you get the gaps on the sides. When you pull the straps up to compensate the gaps, the cups become too small because such pulling pressures your breasts to become "taller" and "spread" even more, i.e. putting you further away from bra's target shape. By pulling the straps to the center you don't allow the cups to "spread" and thus you accentuate the lack of "hang" breast tissue to fill them as they are supposed to. I'd guess that when you slouch or bend your shoulders forward, you also get empty fabric for the same reason.
3-section soft cup bra could be either the blessing or the curse, because I think they tend to be not-so-forgiving to the shape mismatches. I suspect the key of the right fit is the shape and size of the upper cup part, and the angle at which it joins the other two.