Growing up

A hair light would eliminate her head bleeding into the background. I'm also not crazy about the shadows that are cast from her arms. There isn't enough light on her hands.

I like it conceptually though.

Best regards Umashankar!

PDE

Clarity, perfect light treatment and very vivid pose and expression....!!!

My congrats Umashakar for this portraiture work.... ...!!

Many thanks Pierre, Karolos!

Umashank,

She is a very pretty girl. You might be able to get her eyes a little sharper, but you have focused quite well on her eyes. Be sure to use a tripod whenever possible. Her skin tone, the contrast and the color saturation is very good.

The composition is quite good, but I don't see a good reason to include her hands in the photograph and you certainly don't want the floor showing. I would move in much closer for a nice head and shoulders portrait. The bright colors of the horizontal stripes and buttons on her top draw my attention away from her face. It would help to crop some of that out of the image or have her change to another outfit. You want to avoid bright colors, stripes and bold patterns in clothing. In a portrait the subject’s face is what is most important and nothing should draw the viewer’s attention away from the face.

Don't crop at a joint (her knees). It can make you subject appear to be an amputee. Crop between joints.

The lighting is good, but a hair or backlight would help to separate her hair and her dark top from the background. The fill light looks very nice. Her hands and arms look very dark compared to her face and upper arms. The light falls off too quickly. The darkness of her lower arms just doesn't look natural.
The tilt of her head and shoulders look somewhat unnatural -- a tad too much.

You have catchlights, but one catchlight per eye is preferred.

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.

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

Her hands look a bit larger than they should. Be careful of foreshortening. Watch for anything closer to the camera than the body. If nearer the camera than her body her feet, knees, hands, elbows and shoulders will look out of proportion to the rest of the body -- larger than normal -- foreshortened.
If you move her a little farther from the background her shadow will not show on the background.

It is quite appropriate to place your name and the date your photograph was made, if you wish, on a mat surrounding your photograph. You do not want to have anything on your photograph that draws the viewer's attention away from your subject.

Nice shot,
Mark

Nice work Mark - thanks for sharing, I learned many things as well.  :)