Beata VII

What do you think?

excellent, I especially like the details on the hair of the lady and cat...congrats.

Oskar,

 

I like this portrait very much. The skin tone and color saturation is very good. The nice soft lighting looks wonderful. The contrast is very nice. The focus is also good. You have good detail in your darks and whites. The background is nicely out of focus. She and the cat are separated well from the background. I love her soft brown hair, but I would like to see a little lipstick or gloss on her (the girl, not the cat). Good portraiture is the art by which the photographer allows both the inner and outer beauty of the subject to be observed. It is sometimes more easily observed with a little well applied make-up. Oops... the cat's hair (fur) is pretty, too.

 

I wish I could see the girl's eyes and it would be nice if the kitty didn't look like it was thinking about trying to get down.

 

The bright leaves on the branch between the girl and the cat draws my attention away from your subjects. I don't really like the bare twig sticking straight up to her right, at the bottom, either. It's the little things that sometimes draw people's attention. "The devil is in the details" or perhaps, "God is in the details" depending on how you look at it.

 

Your composition is very right heavy. You would have to crop a lot off the left side or add to the right side. 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. Luckily, both noses would be very near the same area as the vertical center of the photograph. This is just a guideline, so close is fine.

 

Of course, if you had the girl and the cat facing the other direction, your composition would have been much better.

 

Nice shot,

 

Mark

Mark,Mehmet this is very constructive opinion, Thanks! Mark, you right, I know the rules but sometimes I need do something against rules. Anyway thank you again, your opinion is very important for me. Regards

I like this better than the one where she is looking at the camera. I do think a closer crop would make this portrait much stronger. Very nice subdued lighting and "real" colors.