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Originally Posted by Les Meehan
You have a lovely face in the midst of a complex background that is competing. The slightly naff flowers above and right are distracting since they are past it. The other flowers are strong and may have been more co-ordinated if the girl had been interacting with them (cliche: smelling them).
It is a golden rule that you need to pay as much attention to the surroundings of a model as the model themselves. It is very easy to not be aware of the background OR to have the background too bold (as here). Have a close look at fashion/beauty pics in mags and you will usually see that the backgrounds are 'blown out' of focus with the use of a 300mm lens and f/8 for reduced DoF. This allows the model to come forward from the background.
These are pointers/comments only, I think the girl's face shows you had a good rapport with her and you have timed the shot perfectly to capture that dazzling smile both on the lips and in the eyes (on many pro model shots they smile with their mouth but not with their eyes because their is no real rapport with the photographer). The soft lighting is perfect and her eyes are reflecting the surroundings great to bring out their colour. The slight tilt of the head adds greatly to the innocence and naturalness of the girl's expression.
If you want to do a little trickery on the eyes, enlarge the pupils. This will make her appear even more beautiful if done well (don't use full black, try a very very dark green/grey, almost black).
Lovely natural shot though, good 'un.
Regards
Les
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Les thank you for the pointers this helps a lot. I will continue to learn with this kind of information.