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I love the lighting, you took care of every aspect of it. However, there are problems concerning the model's pose. While you have a perfect shoulder pose, the hands come together in an unnatural way and seem as tough they are concealing the abdomen for some reason, the hips are rotated so that the bum is visible in perfect profile, reducing depth and shape perception and contrasting with the top half's dynamic pose.

Cheers.

Hola Tore. Excelente retrato de esta explosiva modelo, fantastica la composicion y la luz . Te felicito.

Un cordial saludo, Joaquín.

She is gorgeous!! Beautiful job as always!! 7

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Great studio shot. She's great and the technical level is, as always, very high. Regards. Cosmin

Pin-up perfection.... in the tradition of Betty Grable...  Mike

Excellent work as usually... excellent model... I'm agree with nicolaie that next time need find way to place here hands differently. But, any way excellent!

She can be happy,...and also we...!

Yes.... she's great and the technical level is very high, I like this shot very much, well done.

Though I appreciate the reasoning that leads some critiques to decorticate certain images and analyse them in detail, and I most certainly appreciate their good intentions, I cannot help feeling also that sometimes we lose sight of the forest because of the trees.  

Above all what we take into consideration when evaluating an artwork is the impact that it has. The stronger the impact, the more emotional our response will be. When looking at a photograph, we do not measure the aerodynamic efficacy of the silhouette, we look into our senses to discover whether it is pleasing to us or not. Naturally, the lighting and pose and all the other technicalities will contribute to the result. But what will strike us above all is whether an image speaks to us or not.  

Well, a lot of qualities combine in this picture to have the required effect on me.  I am past discussing the mastery of photography of the author whose abilities I will never approach. I look at the result and I thoroughly enjoy what I see. A wonderfully charismatic and smiling subject that leaves a delightful effect on the viewer. From the point of view of fashion/glamour portraiture, which I assume this to be, I think the objective is fully reached.

I will take the liberty of adding an afterthought here, though I have said this already before. Having recently lived through another year of Photo Month in Paris, I can assure you that the most successful works chosen for viewing  by museum curators, gallery and exhibition organizers are filled with crooked walls and horizons, missing ears, feet and hairlines, frequent absence of true whites and black, sometimes totally burned out areas,  strange shadows  ..and  all the other stuff that would meet with scorn on PN. And yet, these are the works that are at the forefront of successful creative photography today which people flock to see and pay huge sums of money to buy.  I think the key word once again is impact, in reality very little else matters. That said, undoubtedly many factors may contribute to that effect.