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Thank you for your comments. Trying to improve from the first

photos. Thank you.

Hello JH, Having your subject dressed in white against a white background is a nice combination, but I'm afraid that the flash has given some very hard and unflattering lighting.

 

Can you use an external flash? If so, you may get better results by bouncing the flash off the ceiling or through some white paper. If you are stuck with the flash on the camera, perhaps you could put some tissue over it to soften the light a little.

 

Please don't think I'm rubbishing your work, I hope it would help you improve.

 

By the way, have you seen the PN pages on portraiture?

 

http://www.photo.net/learn/portraits/

 

Best wishes. Pete

You might experiment with using less direct lighting, and also photographing from an angle to one side or the other rather than head-on. Note that the catchlights in the subject's eyes are located in the middle of the pupils, the light on the subject's forehead is bright enough to block up the highlights, and there are few shadows to provide a sense of depth or direct the viewer's attention to any particular portion of the picture.