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I love this beautiful, intimate portrait, Lisa. It takes much trust from a subject to get this close, which comes across here. I like the shallow depth-of-field and your chosen focus point. The high-ket B&W is also well chosen.

Many thanks Mark!  I was concerned the very shallow DOF would be an issue for viewers but I chose to shoot wide open quite purposefully.  Regards

Hi Lisa:

I agree: The shallow DOF is lovely. The expression is very tender. I find the one eye in focus and foreground eye blurred most interesting.

But there's one thing, over which you had no control, that diminishes what could be a beautiful presentation here. The title and tags are directly under her nose. I think a crop that included the tip of her nose would have avoided that. Not something you think of when you're shooting and relates strictly to how Photo.net's layout at times does our works a disservice.

Cheers ~

Alberta

Thank you Alberta. I had also noticed the text was distracting but like you say, it's out of my control.