Beauté illuminée 2

I think this B&W is a much more powerful version of this shot, any

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I'm a deep lover of "Portrait" and this one is really a wonderful work with a great B/W conversion! Compliments to you and also to the model!...Ciaomau!

Beautiful image of this stunningly beautiful young woman! Gorgeous lighting, skin tones, sensual shadows ... kind of a platinum paper quality in the skin tonality (from the good old darkroom days). Kudos on your exquisite work! Cheers!

There are so many portaits where the models are overly made up and/or they are posed in bizarre never-naturally-occuring positions.  Here is how it should be done, imo.  It doesn't hurt that she's stunningly beautiful.  Her make up merely accentuates that, and her pose is relaxed and natural.  The exposure, composition, lighting look perfect to me.  Lovely.

Excellent B&W shot !! Another excellent portrait of this beatiful woman, Jean-Michel ... and another well deserved 7 for you. Best regards

WOW..............

que hermosa fotografia , el blanco y negro que manejas , la pose , el contraste , la expresión de ella , todo esta perfecto , felicidades... + de 10....

terrific lighting.  I love how the light falls off the side of her face.  very intimate shot.

Wonderful Portrait with Nice detail and light shades and effects.

Top professional model and looks well always, especially under your professional lighting Jean-Michel! Congratulations for your utmost skill!

PDE

Jean-Michel, wonderful professional high-level portrait. The lightning and the tones are perfect. Regards, Burak

Wonderful model, lighting and shot! Triple whammy.

i like how the light falls on her face and the contrast with the deep black background works great.

Best regards Tore

what a gorgeous woman!  your lighting and detail and composition all add to her beauty.  shadows are defining but not overly heavy.  lovely.

This is wonderful work Jean-Michel, the model is very beautiful, the composition and lighting is perfect, the only small criticism I have is there  are two cachlights in each of her eyes and it could be improved by removing the lower ones.

Perfect lighting and tonality

I disagree with Ben in my opinion. I took it to test and removed the lower catch lights and it took away the striking glare that caught my attention in the first place. Not sure where the rules come from as to there should only be one catch light, but when you have a lower fill light to fill the shady under-area's it's only natural to have that light in the eye's as well. In this particular composition, the lower catch light is meant to be - imo. Congrats Jean-Michael!

No, the double catchlight is perfect, and absolutely lovely portrait.