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Natural and perfect skin tone, good pose and very good light.

A really great portrait.

nice portrait. Nice light, pose and expression. Well done..!

Ricardo

Tore,

She is a beautiful girl and appears to have a very nice figure. You have focused very well on her eyes. She has very good eye contact with the camera (viewer). The background is nicely neutral and you have burned in the edges of the background quite well. She is well separated from the background. She has a cute impishly playful expression that goes along extremely well with the lowering of her shoulder strap. Her make-up is very good. The lighting you have used has created some very nice shadows that not only help create the illusion of depth within your photograph, but nicely emphasizes her feminine curves. The contrast and color saturation is very good.

This is a very well done portrait of a beautiful girl. There are a couple of things I will mention for your consideration. You may or may not think these will improve this image.

Her hair could be brushed better. It is bunched up on the top of her head and there is an opening on her right side where light is filtering through onto her forehead and near her right eye.

The background color is awfully near the color of her skin and hair. If your goal was to have very harmonious shades of brown blending together, then this is fine. I would have preferred a background color to allow her to stand out a little more.

You have at least two kickers lighting her right arm, her left shoulder and the left side of her hair. I'm thinking one backlight might have worked better. If you like the effect you have achieved, I would tone down the hot spot on her left shoulder.

She appears to have a gold necklace with silver earrings and bracelet. The necklace may be silver and is picking up reflective color from her skin, but it appears to be gold. I would stay with one color. Make sure the clasp of her necklace is out of sight and any pendant is center on her neck or chest.

I wish the bottom of her dress was not white. The viewer's eyes will go to the white, which is the lightest area of the photograph. Because the white is at the edge of the frame, the viewer will be drawn down and out of the photograph. A darker color would have helped keep the viewer's eyes within the photograph.

Be careful of how far you have her turn her head away from the camera. The bridge of her nose is starting to cut into her far eye. You are approaching a split profile.

You have so many lights and/or reflectors on her that she has multiple catch lights. One catch light, positioned at about the 10 or 2 o'clock position on her iris, per eye, is preferred.

Do not pose your subject straight on to the camera. This is not a very feminine pose. Showing your subject’s widest areas (shoulder to shoulder or hip to hip) makes those areas appear wide. Your subject will appear thinner, more feminine and more graceful if turned at an angle to the camera. The lines you see from an angle have more apparent motion, interest and grace. It usually looks best to angle your subject somewhere around 45 degrees.

Avoid having the back of the hand towards the camera. Similar to having your subject at an angle to the camera, the edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful.

Her right shoulder is pushed up quite high compared to her left shoulder. I think this looks just a little awkward.

Nice shot,

Mark

Thanks so much for your comments.

Mark a special thanks to you for taking the time to give me such detailed feedback, I appreciate it.

Best regards Tore

WOW!!! Fantastic, I love that looking, excellent pose,colors and details.

Alberto

It's nice to see your work on the Daily Sampling today!!   Mike

overall frame is too tight. her stray hair is a mess and I dont really like how it sweeps on her shoulder. her bracelets are distracting and a bit of a focal point. you could brighten her eyes a bit. the light feels a bit hot on the bottom of the frame.

but thats is just my opinion. nice job though.

I think you need to consider sitting one of the lights at a lower angle to avoid or minimize the shadow on her lower jaw, it is a bit too pronounced.  Also her right hand is is a bit distracting... if I were going to have her arms crossed I think I would have tried to avoid her thumb sticking up and fingers on the right hand being spread, it give the hand a larger appearance than it should have... but considering her hand is also lighter than her arm I think I would have kept it out of shot completely it almost makes me think she is wearing a glove...lastly I'm not sure what you wanted the viewer to zoom in on.  If its her face, then I would have dropped the shiny bracelets, they are distracting, then again that white tipped thumbnail is also distracting especially when almost on top of the black top.... I think I would have tried it with non jewelry at all to minimize the clutter.