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This is very creative work and very pleasant, the model out of the cloudy atmosphere she appears very beautiful and adding great credit to your work here.

Thank you my friend for sharing it and wishing you all of the best.

The high key is great, very creative shot with her eye the main focus, feels slighly voyeuristic and makes me curious to know what she was doing and why we are peeking in one her :-) Origional, I like this one very much!

Dominic,

She is a very pretty girl and I really like the effect you are going for. Your focus looks good and she has nice catchlights. Her make-up looks very good. There are a few things I am going to comment on that I think may make your image work a little better. Many may be just personal preference.

The overall tones look a little muddy. It looks like you may have lowered the contrast to where both the whites and the blacks look a bit dull. You can still have a soft hazy image (romantic and dreamy) with higher contrast. It was common to put a little vaseline on a filter in front of a lens to get this effect.

It appears you are shooting through some objects in the foreground that are in front of her face. They are extremely out of focus and show up as hazy light areas on her lower face, her nose and her left eye. I find these quite annoying and draw attention away from her face. An out of focus background is very nice and focuses attention on your subject. An out of focus foreground will draw attention away from your subject, especially if it is in front of her face.

The area around her face is quite busy and draws attention away from her face. I would move in and remove some of the area under her face. Your top and bottom compositional balance is a little top heavy, anyway. It would help your composition to crop off some of the bottom.

Your composition is a little right heavy. 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. The tip of her nose doesn't have to be exactly centered, but this gives you a good starting point from which to subtly adjust your composition to make it visually balanced. This little rule almost always works well.

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. 

It appears that she is looking just to the right of where her head is pointing. If not making eye contact with the camera (viewer), the eyes should follow the line of the nose. It is natural to look where your head is pointing. If looking off to the side you should show what she is looking at or provide a reason that she is not looking where her head is pointing.

Her pupils are quite dilated. If you use brighter modeling lights or have a brighter area to shoot her in, her eyes will not become so dilated.

Nice shot,

Mark

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