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First dabble into Fashion Photography. All I had was the model and

the sun, well and my camera, of course. Thanks for any comments!

Hi Ben,

Looking at the model, I read into her pose and follow her eyes. My eyes go from her face and follow the contour of her body down to her toes. Because she is dead center in the image, she becomes the sole focus of the photo. But, she isn't expressing any particular emotion, so we need the context of her surroundings. If she were off center, it would create a tension within the image that would lend itself to interest.

The background is neither sharp nor blurry and I think you would benefit from including more of it. This portrait may have worked better as a horizontal shot including more of the river to the left, cropping out the rock on the right. We would follow her eyes and the shape her body makes as it curves to the left and out over the water. At the same time, if you move off axis to the right a little bit, you would exaggerate this curve further, making the shape more apparent.

You have a symmetry created with exactly the same amount of space above her head and below her feet in the frame. Coupled with the centering of her image, she creates almost a straight line up and down; this makes the image stationery as opposed to fluid and moving.