Emma 18

Delightful!! Excellent work.

Cheers

Beautiful tones and great lighting. Congrats.

Excellent work! 6

Wow! Great photo & composition!

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Thanks very much, Alberto, Raymond, Maurizio & Egils... :-) This picture was shot at sunset...

Nice image and I love the texture in the sand and the spread of it on her, but I think it's held back by a few details. First - the composition - with her reaching like that, you want to leave a little bit of space for her to be reaching into, not practically cutting off her finger tips. Second thing that stands out is that the makeup is out of place , both with her expression, as well as the mood that the rest of the image is conveying - change the imagine to black and white, and you eliminate the impact of this. Last detail that really bothers me here is her left eye - seeing the white under her iris in the image is somewhat off-putting, and I'd look to adjust that in post to move her iris down and give a more natural appearance here (and certainly match it better with her right eye's appearance).

Thanks very much, Norm, for your comments. My answers are:

> Finger tips: I actually like to play with the edges and I like to frustrate the onviewers, so that they're willing to magically willing to enlarge the frame in order to try to see more of the model... ;-)

> Make up: we shot this series at sunset, after an almost whole day of shooting. Therefore the model's make-up isn't "fresh "anymore", but it nonetheless doesn't disturb the mood of this picture, according to me.

> Left eye: I agree. I shall fix that.