Nice shots Marlfox, I particularly like the first one the portrait as it is very natural, you have resisted the temptation to whiten the eyes till they look like painted marbles and blur the skin till it looks like a plastic blow up doll.
I don't understand if people are going to photoshop faces that much they don't just all paste the same face on to a body as it is no longer a photograph of anything real, just another photoshop painting!!!
Anyway, nice to see a natural face. The second one, looks lovely, but, and I am no fan of studio posing (I am beginning to sound like a real old grumpy pants), If you have the time to compose a shot, I would try not to cut a tiny bit of the shoe off. I don't mind clops through faces or hands or whatever, so long as it looks deliberate, that just looks like a mistake, a bit sloppy.
Please don't take it the wrong way. I just recently commented on how beautiful someones portrait was, how sharp and detailed, yet still natural it was, but the eyes looked a little over processed. And someone else made exactly the same comment. She replied by saying if all we were going to do was criticise what she thought was "one of the best portraits on Facebook" she wouldn't post again and deleted the post.
Which was a shame as it was a lovely portrait....
. like I said though, I'm no pro and still on a steep learning curve. And all feedback helps!
