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Please provide constructive feedback it will help me improve my

photography.

Thanks.

PDE

Замечательно!

Good. Almost haunting.

I think I'd have lightened the shadow angling down her cheek a bit. In the muted/light tone of her face it jumps out at me and the first thing I thought was "black-eye."

Nice portrait and perfect for a business card or similar promotional material.

Dariusz, 

She is a pretty girl. You have focused well on her eye. She has very good skin tone and eye contact with the camera (viewer). Her make-up looks very nice. The background is nicely neutral and she is well separated from it. The contrast and color saturation is very good.

I have to agree John that her eye is too dark. The color around her eye does look a bit like a "black eye."

I assume this is intended for a business card or some other kind of promotional material seeing as how you positioned her so far to the right side. You even placed your logo in the blank space to help balance the composition. For a business card you would probably want to include your name and contact information. Of course, in a portrait, your logo has nothing to do with the image and would be better placed on the back of the photograph.

She has two catchlights. One catchlight per eye is preferred.

Your depth of field is so narrow that the back of her hair is out of focus. I don't see a good reason to have any of her out of focus. An out of focus background is very nice and focuses attention on your subject. Parts of your subject out of focus will draw attention away from what is in focus. It is difficult to go wrong with having the entire subject in focus.

Nice shot,

Mark

I was interested in the problem of darkness around the eye so I messed around a little bit with Adobe Raw CS3 and found I could completely change the shadow.  Now I also changed your background color in doing it, but I assume you could try applying various effects to the face and background separately.  Now the image I am uploading is not meant to be a final output, but I copied the pages of A/R to show you where I messed with the original.  Notice that the shadow around the eye is largely gone.  I hope this lets you have some fun with it.

Jerry

Ruining somone else's hardwork again? How dreadful it looks after you've touched it!