ISABELLE

The leaves are an interesting effect and quite pleasing. I notice, when looking at this image that everything interesting and compelling about it is on the left side of the frame. The light is coming from that side, the model's expressive face is on that side. The right side holds little interest, the hair on the right has lost texture in darkness. My eye ignores that side and wants to dwell on the left. Perhaps cropping the image differently would strengthen its composition.

The artificial aging of the edges seems without reason. The picture is clearly modern and not from an earlier era - the aging of the edges seems a falsehood that hurts the integrity of the image. I remember auditing a beginning course in architecture from a professor Hermans at the Univ. of Washington, years ago. His advice to beginning architects fits all art. He said to avoid artificiality.