Portrait of Sara

Intriguing beauty. Interesting background, composition and tones. Very well done Paul!

Bello ritratto, my dear Paul ... lluminazione perfetta !! I suoi occhi nocciola sono molto belli ... the largest version is awesome. 

Paul,  The lighting on the girl and the expression are both wonderful.  However I do see two problems.   One is that the lower left background is so bright as to draw the eyes away from the model.  It has classically been called a "light trap."  Also the main catch lights in the two eyes do not agree which gives her face a funny appearance.  Both of these could be handled in software to make this a first class portrait.

Regards,

Jerry Matchett

E 'la stessa ragazza, ma questa volta dimostra autostima, invece di vanità, allegria, invece di sentirsi annoiata, i suoi occhi hanno qualche nuovo abbagliamento, di ottimismo, determinazione! Spero che sia il  vero carattere! La stessa qualità tecnica, la stessa illuminazione, lo stesso vestito ... niente altro è diverso, tranne il  carattere e non è una cosa  piccola!

Sette e complimenti caro maestro!

PDE

questa ragazza è molto bella, tu la rendi anche più bella con quel taglio che slancia il collo. ottima illuminazione degli occhi

A beautiful portrait with very nice lighting, Paul!

With best regards,

Ruud.

Absolutely perfect work! You did it well in all aspects!

Grigoriy

Beautiful portrait, Paul...wonderful light...lovely dof...expression and the head-gear matches very well...superb composition...my best

No critiques ... just beautiful . Bill

Paul,

Sara is a very pretty girl. You have focused well on her eyes. She has good eye contact and is well separated from the background. Her make-up looks very good. I really like her skin tone and the specular highlights on her lips.

You have two catchlights in each eye. One catchlight per eye is preferred.

The highlight on her back and shoulder looks a bit strange. It is almost gray and makes her skin bumpy looking. It would be good to move your kicker a little farther around behind her.

If you want to have a gradation of tones in the background it is best to go from darker on your subject's lighter side to lighter on her subject's darker side. This helps to better separate your subject from the background. It also looks good to have the background darker at the edges of the frame to hold the viewer's eyes within the photograph. Lighter at the edges will draw the viewer's attention to the edge of the photograph and lead them right out of the photograph.

The compositional balance is right and bottom heavy. It would be good to crop some off the left side and add a bit to the bottom. You could crop a smidgen off the top, too. 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 also have good left and right compositional balance. The tip of her nose doesn't have to be exactly centered, but this gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced. This little rule almost always works well. If you are going to do a fairly close shot of the face, it is a good idea to place the eyes about 1/3 to 3/8 of the way down from the top. If nothing else, this gives you a good starting point from which to adjust your top and bottom compositional balance.

You might want to soften the dark circles under her eyes. 

Her pupils are a little dilated. If you use brighter modeling lights or have a brighter area to shoot her in, her eyes will not become so dilated.

Nice shot,

Mark

Bravo Luigi excellent portrait, 7. Best regards, vf

Hello Paul,

I am not capable of giving you a analysis like Mark did.  I just want to say I love it, there is just one small thing.

On the left side there is one hair hanging down.  This is a bit disturbing but easily fixed. 

Ben

Paul:  She's a very pretty girl and the picture grabs you.  One comment though it seems that the irises were lightened so that they no longer have color.  That "grabs" you but is a little unreal.  This may also account for a previous comment about the eyes not looking the same.  Also, it looks like the pupil was made square in the process especially in her right eye.  Nice shot.  Alan

The lighting is very sweet.