portrait Djamilla

very good virage, i like it

Excellent composition, I like the expression. Congratulations. Best wishes. Vicente.

This is kind of a softer "horror lighting" which tends to overexpose the chin areas and underexpose the forehead. It also throws some weird and not particularly flattering shadows on her nose.

A nice idea in concept perhaps, that really didn't work that well in practice, in my opinion.

Very nice and awesome shot.. Well balanced light and no hot spots. Great Job..!!!

Excellent work John!

John,

Djamilla is a very beautiful girl with lovely looking skin. You have focused well on her eyes. She has good catchlights and excellent eye contact with the camera(viewer). The exposure is excellent. I love how her hair looks. The highlights frame her face very well. The background is nicely neutral and she is well separated from it. The black background works perfectly with this portrait.

Her expression and the blue tint (I assume you are implying nighttime) works well with your lighting coming from below her eye level. The name for this style of lighting is grotesque lighting. It has been (and still is) used in video and still photography to light vampires, werewolves, and bad witches. I'm sure you have seen kids trying to make a scary face by holding a flashlight below their face and shinning it up to illuminate their face. It’s the same idea with this style of lighting. I don't know if Djamilla is a witch, but she certainly is bewitching!

You have cropped quite far into her head. This would imply a tighter crop on the bottom. You are lucky that you need to remove her thumb and finger from the bottom, anyway. I would even remove the bit of fabric showing. This would give your better top and bottom compositional balance.

You need to crop some off the left side of the picture. 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. By positioning the tip of her nose in the vertical center of the photograph you not only have her facing into the picture, but you have good left and right compositional balance. This little rule almost always works well. At least it gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced.

Because of your narrow depth of field there are parts of Djamilla that are out of focus. This draws my attention away from what is in focus. I don't see a really good reason to have any of her not be in focus. It is hard to go wrong with keeping all of your subject in good focus.

She has a hair across her left eye that should be removed.

Nice shot,

Mark

Excellent light and composition.Djamilla is really beautiful! 7! Congrats!

Best regards Sadegh

Una mirada interesante... Potenciada por la luz.

Me gusta mucho.

Wonderful light and colortone!

Like the crop to btw

Erg mooi gelukt! Very nice. The new crop is even better... but I love the model, colors and lighting!