Soul searching

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

See what happens when you make this request Bridget? Lots of rates and no comments. Ah well, I guess I get to be the first.

 

Obviously, I can't look at this without also thinking of your other image of this busker. This is obviously a bit less dynamic in terms of the pose but the exposure and tonality is great. My only small suggestion would be to dodge out her hair a bit to the left of her face to see of you can get a little bit of detail, but I otherwise like the image a lot. In comparison to the other one, I assume she's playing a ballad here, eh? Its very nice work. I'm getting impressed with how your work on tonal range is coming along. Its getting better and better.

as Andy mentioned about her hair. I would try to cut her out of the picture and change the background to a very busy,dark background by applying movement blur. This would make a hard contrast to her very calm,melancholic face expression ;-)

for me the cropping is a little too tight.. i would leave some more on the right side if there is no distraction, but the continuity of the wall

Very nice capture Bridget, well done...not too tight a crop IMO. :)

Not sure about darkening her background, you might lose her a bit.

Quite nice! love the expression and title, great capture

Very nice. Great lighting and contrast.

Could you share with us the full frame?! I feel the compo to be a little unbalanced.