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Excellent classic portrait my friend.Lighting is great.You model is having a great looking.Your lighting is awesome as your other works and you background is choosen so cleaverly.All are great in this great portrait.Best wishes to you and your model.Regards

great shot, I wish the highlights were not blown out

Beautiful portrait.

I like the treatment of the image. The composition bothers me a bit: the finger is the focus of the image as it seems to point our eyes toward a precise spot on the gown. If this was intentional I am missing the meaning. Otherwise I'd get rid of it and bring the focus back on the face.

 

Had the finger not been straight (pointing) the effect would have been different, of course.

 

Good image though!

wow, this is really striking

Very, very nice! I really like the way the hair is framed, and everything else. Congrats!

The image is very good. Lighting and all, very good. The hand bother me a bit, not sure why. I look at it for a long time, but don't know why. My first thought was that hand was big, out of porportion, but that is just an feeling. I don't like the other image crop offered up to rid the hand, it takes away from the hair, which lights up the eyes. The head shot with all of the hair and her eyes works together. I just have an issue with the hand. Maybe it is the fingure, or something else.

I think it's all about the facial expression! In addition to that the slight nudty, the hair and

most importantly the hand; it reminds me of a renaissance painting. The background

highlites the theme suberbly.

Dennis - I think it is because the hand looks awkward and disjointed from the body. It looks like it came out of nowhere and is free floating. Pretty girl and a nice studio style shot... except for the hand Dennis - I'm with you.

Yeah, thats it, disjoined. otherwise, a real nice shot. the hair and the eyes... relly good.

A lovely and stunning photograph. Although it is true that the famous hand looks a bit odd showing up out of the blue, it is nevertheless a great portrait in all respects. A 7/7 for me.

I sure do like this shot, mindful though I am that a different model would could lead me to think otherwise. In other words, my beauty button has been pushed, and the photography brings that out, but I'm aware that much of my appreciation is for the model, regardless of the photo. Congrats Pavel! Good photography, and good choice of subject.

I too think the origional photo need a slight crop, especially at the top of the photo.It still a beautuiful photo with great lighting. well done.

I am very curious about "blue" for human portaits. Sometimes "blue" works as it conveys a statuesque marble/stone quality, but I don't believe that this is what the photographer wanted. "Blue" conveys coldness, and with humans: death. Therefore, I find "blue" here unusual and ultimately a poor choice. In all other respects, this portrait is wonderful, big hand and all.

The hand adds complexity to the image, saving it from being "just another pretty face". Note that no one seems to be distracted from her beauty and direct, confident gaze by her indicating hand (if it is her hand!)... t

A pretty face, but the cold expression, and cool blue don't appeal to me. I also think the hand is awkward, distracting, and is less interesting than the amount of attention it attracts. The windblown hair is a bit cliche-ish and doesn't seem to fit with the more formal nature of the rest of the portrait. There are thousands of very similar photos of pretty faces so I would score it low on originality.

I seriously doubt that it is dirt under her fingernail. When getting their nails done, a lot of women have a two-tone sort of treatment applied, so if that's what this is, it's a nice detail for the camera to pick up on. I'm not a big fan of the bluish tone here. For a portrait of this type, with the direct look into the lens and the blowing hair, I think pure b&w would have been more effective. For me, the tone mutes the impact of the photograph. I actually like the hand and the extended finger. While some may see it as "distracting" (a much overused cliche in photo critique), for me it leads the eye down through the shot and is a nice counterpoint to the face...and is also a nice relief from the bluish tone.

 

I'll agree that it is a good example of a fairly standard studio portrait, and although it may be "standard," the model contributes her own uniqueness here, so in that respect it works. Her look really tells us nothing about her, so there's a bit of mystery, I guess. We're free to sort of use our imaginations to fill in the blanks.

 

The bottom line for me is that it's a good portrait, but bad choice of tones.

She communicates with eyes. Her image is rather sensual and erotic.

The bluish-grey tones symbolizes her youth and basic instinct.

I think her hand is overacted.

This is quite interesting to see that Kristina, a female I presume, made great observation of the person rather than the photo. Something that I would normally expect from a male comment on a female beaty subject. To me the hand is more of a "provocative" than distracting element. The index finger of the hand could be possibly pointing right at you.

I join Fred W. comment.

Another beautiful woman's portrait, cold look and tone. Low originality IMO. Even well done technically, it does not touch my feelings, one can see many similars at PN and other nets.

The model is pretty, and the clothing style is somewhat provocative. Other than that, I don't see anything exceptional. The hand kind of hangs out there, which is fine if that fits the mood of the photo, say something scary. But the face is elegant and the lighting is conservative, so the hand doesn't really fit, IMO. Also, as others have mentioned, the wind-blown hair is inconsistent with the pose and the face. Speaking of the face, the expression to me appears empty and posed. I see three different images that could have been done, and judging from the technical abilities of the photographer in this image, could have been done very well. One with a wilder look with the wind-blown hair and a different pose and expression, one with a more sinister look with the hand and dramatic high-contrast lighting, and an elegant one with a slightly more refined pose, no wind, no hand. But this one mixes up all three of these, which for me does not work. Maybe this mixture is what others find interesting, but personally not my cup of tea.

Yes, I am a female. And you are wright about her hand. It's provocative because she slightly holds a slipper. And it could easily fall down.

I didn't know that I think like a male, well maybe it is in my subconscious.

Visually appealing, and technically very well done, but in my opinion it is missing something. Perhaps what it lacks is originality. As such, I guess I am a little surprised at its selection as photo of the week. Having said that, it's still a very nice photo. Congratulations Pavel.

This portrait would have been better in black and white. The blue caste drains the image.

The hand looks awkward because the index finger is very straight and points and directs

the eye out of the image away from the penetrating stare of the model. If the finger ways

slightly crooked and pointing towards the face a circular motion would have occurred

within the image keeping the viewers gaze for longer.

 

Preparation of the model is important when doing portraits. Enhance your models best

features and this is what I would suggest - a clear lip gloss to enhance to give a highlight

on the bottom lip, blusher under the cheek bones to define them, and a fine dark eye liner

would make her eyes stand out.

 

Good lighting and overall a lovely portrait off an exceptionally beautiful woman.

Reminds me of Arwen [Liv Tyler] from the Lord of the Rings movies - very beautiful girl. However, I'm not really impressed with anything beyond her beauty - is that a good or bad thing? I'm not really sure.

 

Initially I found the hand a little creepy and suggestive, which is a good thing IMO, but I don't find that her expression/pose suites the overall mood (imposed by the blue hue) of the photograph very well or makes any connection with the creepy hand. I enjoy the cold, sweeping feel of "wind in the face" and I wonder if another frame could have given us that extra something we're all looking for?