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Alice


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Madeleine,

Alice is a cutie. Her skin tone is wonderful. I love the highlights in her hair. Her make-up and pedicure look very good. She has a nice expression. Her eye contact with the camera (viewer) is very good. Your contrast and color saturation are excellent.

It appears her eyes could be a little sharper. Make sure you focus carefully on her eyes. Use a tripod whenever possible.

The background is very busy and your subject gets lost. Even if she was farther from the background and you threw it out of focus the drawings on it would draw the viewer's attention away from Alice. She needs a plainer background.

Maybe the background has some kind of importance for Alice. Perhaps she is the "artist" and you wanted to include it with her. You don't tell us that. If not, she has too much room above her and you could crop a bit off the right (her left) to give it better left and right compositional balance. The piece of brick on the ground is also distracting.

The lighting really looks quite good, but she needs more light in her eyes and better (more distinct) catchlights to give her some life.

It is usually not a good idea to pose your subject facing straight on to, or away from, 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. Generally, it looks best to angle your subject somewhere around 45 degrees. I wouldn't have her stick her knee out towards the camera, either. It kind of makes her knee look large -- not really attractive.

Avoid having the back (or palm) of the hand towards the camera. Just like turning the body at an angle to the camera, having the edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful. Fingers cascading rather than side by side is preferred.

Nice shot,

Mark

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Very nice - I would have twisted the camera to the right  and included the heart shape.

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