Waiting.

Elegante retrato, bellos colores y magnífica luz natural, la modelo está entretenida con una linda mirada hacia afuera, me imagino. Excelente trabajo, amigo.

Saludos.

A while back my wife and I went out for lunck. While we were waiting for

our meal noticed the window light and there I was pulling out the

camera. Good thing thet place was not crowded since I was shotting

with a 50MM and I had to pull my chair back a lot.

Thanks for your comments.

Alex

Alex,

You are very lucky to have such a beautiful wife. Please do not take any negative comments on your photograph as a reflection on your lovely wife.

The soft window light is nice. Her expression is very pleasant. I love her soft, subtle smile. She looks quite contemplative. She has good catchlights and make-up. Her skin tone is very good. She is well separated from the background. The contrast and color saturation is very good.

I think she has just a little too much room to her right. You want to have good left and right compositional balance and this looks a little right heavy. I would crop enough off the left so that the tip of her nose was close to being in the vertical center of the photograph (or just a tad more -- whatever looks visually pleasing).

The background is nicely out of focus, but rather cluttered with chairs. I find this distracting. The vertical lines on the wall should be vertical. You do not want to slant those lines. It will make you picture appear crooked and draw the viewer's attention -- even if your subject is perfectly straight (which she is). I also find the drink and vase with flowers annoying. You don't want large out of focus "stuff" in front of her. Even if they weren't out of focus, you wouldn't want them in front of her.

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 and more feminine, graceful and elegant if turned at an angle to the camera. The lines you see from an angle have more apparent motion, interest and grace. You usually do not want to have your subject turned 90 degrees to the camera. This can make the head look unsupported. As a rule it looks best to angle your subject somewhere around 45 degrees.

Be careful of split profiles. You do not want the tip of her nose to come close to touching the far cheek line. You want to make sure the far eye is either completely showing or not showing at all. You do not want to have the bridge of her nose cut into her far eye.

Avoid having the back of the hand towards the camera. Just like turning her body so that it is angled to the camera, the edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful.

Thank you for placing your name on the mat where it belongs.

Nice shot,

Mark

I can absolutely see why you wanted to take this photo...the light is very pleasing.  I can't disagree with anything Mark wrote with respect to how this photo could be improved, but I suspect most of us would have a hard time thinking of these things when trying to take advantage of a moment of beautiful light.  I suppose that is what separates the masters from the students. :-)

It simple and interesting casual shot. About space on left. I think it excellently as it should be. It give us visual space effect on direction, where she looking. Well done! 

An excellent image. The raters seem to be very tough on portraits these days - three '3's. I will rate it a 6.

Alex,

Thanks for your comment on one of my photographs!

Yep, looks like we both share the same passion for that moment of light that catches our eye! (Don't we all though!)

This turned out very well, . . . simple, yet elegant in many ways, and yes I can see where the light you captured would be an attention getter!

This is a very nice portrait! And a very fitting title. At least a 6 in my book!

Oh yeah, . . . You have a very beautiful Wife too!

Best wishes,

Jim j.

I can also see why you would be inspired to take this photo. Marks critique is as always a total education to me as I'm afraid portraits are not my speciality. However I will endeavour to tell you what I do like. I like the pretty flowers and the pretty girl, I like the soft diffused background, I like the pleasant demeanour and relaxed atmosphere that the image conveys. I might have considered cropping out the left side of the shot with the chairs showing, but then I don't know.....maybe not. Suffice to say...I like it. 6 from me too

Best Regards

Alf

Hi dear Alex,

Very well POV,here.Nice composition and light managing,also.I like the title and the BG,very much!

Take care.

Best regards(Bobby).

Nice image, locvely title! Bravo!

Esta es una imagen para aprender! El miembro de PN me enseño varias cosas de como colocar la cabeza de la modelo! Y tratar varias formas!  Como dijistes con la digital se puede tratar muchas poses. Lo que mas me llama la atencion es la nariz y el borde de la cara! Puede travajar para beneficio o en contra. Depende de la percepcion de cual!  Bella esposa en bella imagen!  Un par de abrazos.