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I think her face is perfect and the red colored hair is good; I just can't get past the style of it.

super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ))))))

Lovely model and good photographer

great pic...great colours..a real image with the power of a real face and a real look..

7/7

Very nice. Beautiful model very well captured. Sincere congrats.

Beautiful work, Lev!

Enchanting

great portrait! i really like it!

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I like the tones in this. The burnt orange in her hair is well contrasted with the earthy greens in the bg. I do feel that a 15% crop off of the left would benefit the composition and eliminate the tree that seems to be competing with her eyes.

It gives me the feeling of some "I don't want to talk about it" trouble. Emphasized by the blank stare, the tilting head against the wood or stone. It is most interesting that the stone seems to be also tilted against her symbolizing the unknown trouble...Beautiful tone, detail and focus.

It gives me the feeling of some "I don't want to talk about it" trouble. Emphasized by the blank stare, the tilting head against the wood or stone. It is most interesting that the stone seems to be also tilted against her symbolizing the unknown trouble...Beautiful tone, detail and focus.

Words that pop to mind are elf, nymph, fairy... not so much trouble. I love the simplicity of the composition- it leasves room for the "action" her hair brings to the image. Great capture.

 

To me it looks like her skin is a little on the green side. Check the fleshtones, but it could just be me.

An 'honestly' beautiful image! No distractions, excessive makeup, unnecessary additives....this is just beyond all of that!

Great picture. For some reason I can't stop looking at her lips, they stick out to me but I don't know why.

Will King above, has the idea. This photograph needs some cropping. I agree with his assessment that 15 percent needs to come off the left side. Eliminate that wood or tree or fence post or whatever it is. I also would either crop the bottom halfway to the subject's chin. Or darken the bright red of the girls coller. Either way, it would stop competing with the rest of the beautiful photograph.

 

My congratulations on a fine photograph, lovely subject (even with strange hair), and for being chosen as this weeks POW.

 

Willie the Cropper

I agree with those who suggested the crop. But by doing so I find that the model's hair interferes with her eyes

and her face. This I think is serious because removing one 'interference' leads to another somewhat unimportant

element becoming important...a sign that perhaps quite a different approach would have been better for this

subject whose eyes, freckles, lips and hair all vie for attention. IMHO, a wider focal length, perhaps a 50mm or

a 85mm from a 'middle' distance, with more of her head and hair but also her neck and shoulders to balance her

hair, would have been a better decision such that in sum her eyes, here the most important element, win over.

Just my 2 cents.

Great shot. What grabs me first about this shot is her hair but as I look inside I get an opening to her eyes. I can see why the need for the tree on the left as a frame, but cropping a bit more would help. Good job!

I like the simplicity of her look contrasted with the depth of her eyes. To me, the portrait works as it is with her head slightly leaning against the tree. Really a very good portrait.

Excellent. There's a lot of depth to the portrait

It is certainly a good image... depth of field is about perfect, but i'm still not convinced that it's a 'great' image. maybe it's just me, but it feels like the (viewer's left) eye is distracting, almost as if she's not completely looking at the camera... Probably an optical illusion, but throws me a bit.

 

Aside from that, a very nice portrait no doubt.

I wouldn't crop out the tree. The tree is part of the "story" as the head bends slightly and tenderly. The DOF is

practically perfect and the expression very interesting. A great portrait in my opinion.

I agree, that there is a "been there" look to her expression. I also like the contrast of the rough hair and smooth skin as well as the mostly vertical composition broken by the two diagonal strands. The image draws you...

I also feel there is much to like about this portrait. I like the way the hair frames her face. The colors really contribute without being too saturated. My only issue is the uneven light on her eyes. Her right eye really pops but he left is dull. I feel they either need to be even or very different. I really like her expression.