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I am looking for any advice I can get. Please if you shoot portraits a lot please give me advice,

If you don't and you notice anything let me know. Thanks for looking

For a portrait you did a rather good job in my book. The skin tones are warm, the subject is in great focus and well lit. I find the excessive about of image to the right to be a bit distracting. You could try to take it more out of focus or crop a bit. Still a great job.

Sean,

I dont shoot portraits, but I do appreciate pretty women. If I would offer any advice here it would be to crop off some of the left side of the photo as it detracts my attention from the subject.

Regards,

Jerry

Hi there! I like the angle and/or the perspective, and I like the fact that she's in the right corner of the picture - if only the background was something to look at, or something relevant to the model, somehow connected with her - which I don't think is the case here. So either crop, as suggested or leave it blurred. The "target", the girl, looks great, so you did the portrait just fine.

A bit too much posed. The light is natural and the scene could be more spontaneous. Nice model and good photo though.

A bit too much posed. The light is natural and the scene could be more spontaneous. Nice model and good photo though.

with the other posters, that the area of greatest improvement might be on the left-hand side. She's well lit and you might just play around with slightly different head tilts, smiles or parted lips, etc. until you get what you want from her, in terms of a "look".

 

The left side of the image isn't all that interesting, but if you want an environmental look one thing you can do is blur it out even further. Create a duplicate background layer (after you're done with all other processing), Gaussian blur it, add a mask and then just let the left side be even blurrier than it currently is, potentially to the point of being abstract shapes. At the end of the day you'd be better served with a more interesting background, but if you want to make the most out of this one you might give that a try.

 

For someone who claims to have no experience this is an excellent start!!!

Very natural expression. Like the softness and the composition very much. Lovely shot.

If you want, have a look...

I wanted to thank all of you for your advice and comments. Please keep them coming they are defiantly helping me. I have added more blur. Please tell me what you think.