Avory 5-11-13 48

A lovely portrait and I love the reflection too I do!

-r-

nice portrait, like the reflection on window

Mark, When I first looked at this I liked it a lot.  As others have noticed the reflected face adds something special to the image.  However, there was a special something irregular in the image which bothered me and I left it sit for a while and have now returned to it, to try to solve the problem.

What seems strange about it is that the optical laws of reflection seem to be being violated here.  The best eye reflection in the window seems to show a reflected image staring at the nose of the model.  That would require the model to be staring back, but she is not - she is staring off to the right.  I don't understand how that is possible, unless some post production work had been going on.  For instance, a reflection from another picture could have been substituted here.  

Jerry

Jerry - no tricks, no photoshop.

I really should learn to ignore titles. Because of the title, I want to see the bottom of the necklace. Ignoring the title, his is a fine image. Perhaps a more uniform reflection would have been good. The band to the right is distracting.

David - Thank you for the constructive comment and suggestions. Uniform reflections from windows are hard and I will consider a tighter crop on the right side.

Beautiful shot Mark!