mary

any comments are appreciated

I have minor issues over contrast, and her forehead highlight has lost some detail. But these are overridden by the sheer charm of the pose and exquisite beauty of the model.

thanks Milo ) it appears I need a better scanner, even on the highest resolution, some detail gets lost. and to answer an email, thats a 3 1/2 caret diamond

Very striking, rather theatrical portrait - I think the high contrast treatment works well with only the sky blown out. The problem with the contrast at the highlight end of the scale is the increased grain. If this is a scan from the neg this could be controlled by scanning again darker and adding the result as a partial opacity (eg 30%) layer. If scanned from a print the only solution wouls be some selective blur around the highlights. Personally I don't find it a major fault anyway.

 

Best wishes, Jonathan

a wonderfull portrait!