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Arturas,

She is a very pretty girl. I love her expression -- she seems to be deep in thought -- well done. Her skin tone is very good. The background in nicely neutral. She has very good catchlights that help to draw the viewer to her eyes and give life to the image. She has very nice specular highlights on her lips. The directional lighting -- going towards her face works very well. I find it perfect for the feeling she is evoking. The lighting separates her nose beautifully from her far cheek.

I will give you a few things to consider.

A little backlight would help to separate her better from the background. Her dark hair blends right into it.

Perhaps lightening the shadows would give a little more detail to the dark areas -- like her hair.

Mascara on her lower eyelashes, even though they appear very fine, and a little eyeliner under her eyes would help to make her eyes stand out even better. Just a smidgen more blush would also be nice.

You should soften the crease in her eyelids. 

Be careful of split profiles. You do not want the tip of her nose to come close to touching the far cheek line. You want to make sure the far eye is either completely showing or not showing at all.

Notice how nice her right hand looks. Avoid having the back (or palm) of the hand towards the camera. The edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful. Fingers cascading rather than side by side is preferred.

You cannot see the tops of her fingers. This is similar to cropping at a joint. She appears to be an amputee. The crop at the bottom should be lower. You don't want to crop across her knuckles.

Her left hand appears to be a bit larger than it should. Be careful of foreshortening. Watch for anything closer to the camera than the body. If nearer the camera than her body her feet, knees, hands, elbows and shoulders will look out of proportion to the rest of the body -- larger than normal -- foreshortened.

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 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.

The top and bottom compositional balance is very good, but you might want to include a little of her hair at the top of the frame. With only her forehead showing you have a light area at the top of the frame. This can draw the viewer's attention to that light area and out of the picture because there isn't a reason to stop. A little hair showing on top would darken the top edge, framing the picture in a bit, to help keep the viewer's eyes from leaving the picture. You want to keep the viewer's eyes within the photograph.

You might consider a vertical format. Once it is compositionally balanced there will be a lot of room in front of her. It may look better vertically. It depends on how she is finally posed and how much of her you include in the frame.

You have focused on the eye nearest the camera, which is what you are supposed to do. Your depth of field is so narrow that her far eye is clearly out of focus. It is not supposed to matter if the far eye is somewhat out of focus if the near eye is in focus. The reasoning is that psychologically the viewer will consider the picture to be in focus if the eye nearest him or her is in focus. I'm not sure this is true.  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. This includes her far eye, the back of her head and her hands.

Nice shot,

Mark

Thanks a lot for comment!