Saaleena

What profound display of how to shoot a portrait! regards!

Very interesting portrait!

Low-key portrait with the black girl is excellent.

Nice portrait, Emmanuel...my best

what beautiful portrait..... tamarah

Emmanuel,

 I like the tonality and the side-lighted face in profile but I would suggest that your compositional placement could be improved.  Notice that the nose is almost dead center in the available space.  The eyes are looking through the right side and that makes that right side black space very important.  The space behind the head is dead space and does not help the impact of your picture.  Just for an experiment try cropping left of the ear to get rid of that dead space.

My regards,

Jerry Matchett

Thanks for your thoughtful critique, but more importantly, the time you took to make the changes. On looking at your version, I have to agree with almost 100% of what you did. I just might recrop this or take that into account on subsequent pictures. Thanks again.

Excellent - learned a few things about portraits from your image and the critiques.

Beautiful classic portrait!

Excellent shot.

Emmanuel,

   Wonderful control of lighting with amazing details.  Take care, Patsy

Lovely portrait. Best regards.