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Adore the dress, love the space, beautiful treatment.

Nice use of foreground to give depth. The bird adds extra value and balances the right hand side. Did well not to blow out the highlights (much). Overall well framed.

Nice silhouette shape and placement. I'd like to have seen some detail held on the water. Golden.

Come sit a while...

Bird watching...

Blue gel or no?

Simple arches

Does this work?

Told you I was new :-)

I'm new to fashion

No set - this place is real - it's in a guy's garden (it's his "mid life crisis" to quote his words.) The pumps were restored over 10 years from originals found all over America and Australia. See www.billysservicestation.com

 

There's a floodlight at the front. The coke sign is on a white pole. No Route 66 in Brisbane but this place was built as a copy of the same place in Anaheim.

This place is being auctioned off soon.

Roses are red...

The toning works very well. Nice expression.

You've captured a really strong story. The crop at the wrist is a little harsh. The light across the eyes actually draws you in to the eyes - so it works but then the hair is a little bright - taking the eye away.

Excellent work as always. You've really isolated the essence in that triangle. You may wish to remove the 2nd softbox catchlight (or not)

A really nice golden balance. You've used the lines of cloud and water well and held down the brightness to get good shadow detail.

Lovely light, well executed. Needs a foreground interest for me.

Nice colour and line placement/triangles. Looks soft in the foreground in the small.

Good thought for leading line and nice sky saturation. The central (Horizontally) bush catches the eye but the little black dots in the water do too.

Read this on portraits: http://super.nova.org/DPR/PBase/PBase.pdf

A nice line all the way up to the light. Good blue cold feeling.

It's working - the centre of interest is the left eye, the line of light up the cardigan and the piano keys both lead to the eye. There is a catachlight in the other eye to give it life. The shadows on the right cheek don't fall highly attractively and maybe you need to place your key light higher. The left shoulder is too bright and doe act as a second/competing point of interest. The cheek is soft. Maybe there is something you can do with the chin - bring it forward to make it stronger and remove the slight fold under. - the layed back position (slouch) also causes the neck/chest transition to bunch up.

 

Vignetting/shading is good. The curve of the piano leg in that bright area distracts a smidgin. No hot spots is good as is the direction of the gaze - back towards the light - short and sweet.

This is very nice - love the lines, simplicity and contrast - there is a definit conflict at the transition to sky.