Elena in San Jose

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She looks happy and relaxed but the front-on pose and lighting has the effect of both f(l)attening and broadening. Good texture and shape come from controlling the shadows as you must know. I like the tilt.

An higher CV would render the face more pleasing, less `up the nostrils`: and the comparative (size of) the waist and especially the left elbow, (very intrusive result of the frontal pose) in better or a more kind proportion to the torso whole.

 

As mentioned above, full frontal renders robust results: such robustness is often necessary for a specific artistic quality, meaning or message: however I think that 3/4 portrait and kinder lighting would be more in keeping with this subject and the message the photographer wishes to capture.

 

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