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Very good use of light.

Sergey,

I really like your use of light on this very pretty girl -- except perhaps for the highlight on the banister in front of her. That is a bit distracting. It would be better if it was a little darker. There are a couple of other things you might consider.

Avoid having the back (or palm) of the hand towards the camera. The edge (side) of the hand towards the camera is thinning, feminine and graceful. It is not really a problem with her right hand. Your use of light allows much of her hand to be in shadow and it looks very nice. The way the light highlights her knuckles on her left hand really makes it stand out and look rather large and a bit masculine.

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.

Perhaps you are trying to create some psychological anxiety in your viewers by the placement of your subject. The compositional balance is quite right and bottom heavy. She has quite a bit of room above her and she is very close to the right side. Unless there is a good reason 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 also 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.

It bothers me a bit that in the lower right the banister is out of focus. As a general rule having the background out of focus draws attention to your subject, but having the foreground out of focus draws attention away from your subject.

Nice shot,

Mark

This is a very good portrait...excellent use of available light...the caption says film, I'm assuming this is indeed the case...the tones and textures are very nice.  An interesting location...and a nice introspective pose and expression from your model.  Nicely captured.

Lovely, I could see cropping out the bannister at right, but I am drawn to her face, regardless.