Spring Portrait

I took this photo of a local high school senior. Any constructive

criticism or suggestions are appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Charles.

Not bad, if the flash was a little less intense, it might look like she was a part of the scene, instead of pasted in. If you can get the two to match it will look natural. Otherwise nice expression etc.

Wonderful portrait , great light, details and colors

 

All of the best

I agree, she looks 'pasted in' a little bit. Also, the background is a little disturbing for me (the benches draw my attention). The light is a little hard perhaps. I do like the pink contrasting with the green, clear blue eyes and dark hair. Tones are also very good, detail is very good. All in all a fairly good portrait and a beautiful model!

If you cropped the photo to get rid of the chairs I wonder how it would look? Also, and I realize this is being very picky, I would have had her make sure her hair wasn't blocking her left eye because her eyes are too pretty to even partially hide.

 

Thanks to all for their comments. I agree that the chairs are somewhat distracting for a portrait since the focus should be on the subject. However, just as a picture, I kind of like the area in the background as the hole in the tree braches leads to a sort of seperate world in the background.

 

I have cropped the picture to eliminate the benches but it leaves me with kind of a boring, perfectly centered (although beautiful) subject. I could also remove the benches with Photoshop, but that is kind of against the spirit of "unmanipulated" images.

 

Again, thank you for the input.

 

Charles.