Powder

very nice photo (and having a lovely model helps)... i find that i don't enjoy many portraits, but i really like this one.... the "soft" lighting effect works really well and the way she has her head tilted is very expressive ....

I agree with Michael. One of my favorite portraits on photo.net (and I like only few :-).

This shot is way overexposed. Tune it a little with PS and I'm sure it'll turn out way better.

There is a battle going on here... The lightness gives her a sense of innocence, yet the look on her face in kind of condescending, making her look accusive (is that a word?) and making the viewer feel like they've done something wrong... Good work.

In response to the "overexposed" comment - this was done /on purpose/ in Photoshop to give it the effect it has, that of a soft, powdery photo.

overly blown out - seems like less a choice than a mistake. good eye contact with the subject. the crop is just a bit weird frame right where it just keeps her armpit shadow.

Paedric,

 

 

I would really like to make more "mistakes" like

this one.

Lovely pose, lighting, model etc. I'm not sure why I can't give higher than 5 for aesthetics...maybe the coarse look of the shadows.(?) They seem quite out of place with the overall smoothness of everything else. As I'm looking at it (can't seem to leave it!) it's occured to me that the photos background and the background of the web page are opposing each other (not your fault) and this creates an objectionable mix. Maybe a border that compliments the color scheme of the image would help the presentation. In fact I'm sure it would so I'm upgrading my aesthetics score in good faith. I really dislike the white web page! A neutral grey would be better maybe? We'll leave that to the photo.net elves...

 

Update: Like it with the frame much better. The cooler white of the photo isn't fighting with the photo.net white background.

Somehow this is a picture I'm having difficulties to comment on. I think it's quite obvious that the result is as you intended it to be and I think I quite like the effect. It works well with the way the model looks in the lens. A dark gaze in a light world (or something like that).

 

Just a weird idea of mine: if you would cropp off the lower part just past her right shoulder (left in the picture) and also cropp off some of the right part of the picture, with her left shoulder, I think the contrast between that "dark gaze" and the light surroundings would get much more obvious. Maybe you like the idea, maybe you don't.

Dramatic pose and expression and I think your "powdery" high-key treatment works well. I just wondered if you had considered a "soft crop" to a traditional oval...

... like this (I'll delete this in a few days unless you would like to leave it up for discussion) ... Jonathan

and it's a lovely one.

I don't see the point on overexposure or..

A picture is something you like or not. I like it.