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Hold your left hand out in front of the image with thumb out sideways to see an adjustment. Crop the left and bottom out. What do you think? Remove the foreground, just to the right of the "hot" flower near the bottom left and crop the left side so the lean of the body is close to the edge of the frame. The way it is framed now makes the lean of the body look off balance, to me at least. The lighting and skin tones are marvellous. 

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Tomasz.

She is a pretty girl with a nice expression. You have focused well on her eyes. Her skin tone is very nice. The contrast and color balance are very good. The background is nicely out of focus and she is well separated from it. Her make-up looks very good.

The orange flowers draw attention away from your subject.

An out of focus background draws attention to you subject. An out of focus foreground draws attention away from your subject. You need to crop some of the bottom.

She is leaning too far over. She is in an awkward pose. She looks like she is about to fall over.

Do not pose your subject straight on to the camera. This is not a very feminine pose. Showing your subject’s widest areas (shoulder to shoulder or hip to hip) makes those areas appear wide. Your subject will appear thinner and more feminine, graceful and elegant if turned at an angle to the camera. The lines you see from an angle have more apparent motion, interest and grace. You usually do not want to have your subject turned 90 degrees to the camera. This can make the head look unsupported. Generally, it looks best to angle your subject somewhere around 45 degrees.

You have cropped too closely to her on the left (her right) side. The composition is left heavy. Your subject should have more room in front of her than behind. This allows her to be facing into the picture, not out of it. You want to compositionally balance the left and right sides of the photograph. The compositional "rule" for this suggests that you position the tip of the subject's nose in the vertical center of the photograph. By positioning the tip of her nose in the vertical center of the photograph you not only have her facing into the picture, but you have good left and right compositional balance. This little rule almost always works well. At least it gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced.

The catchlights are slightly below the center of her pupils. That means the main light is coming from below her eyes. She is outdoors. The main light outdoors is usually considered to be the sun. At least, most people think it is the sun. It, therefore, is quite common (and expected) to have the light coming from above your subject. At sunrise or sunset it could be coming from the side. This, of course, is assuming her head is not tilted back.

You should remove any hairs across her eyes.

It would be good to whiten her teeth a bit. Compared to the whites of her eyes and her blouse they look quite discolored.

Nice shot,

Mark

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I don't have not enough clearness of a picture. Such shot do on about 1.8 diaphragm so that in focus there was a person opened. Yours faithfully, Alex.

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