Portrait Critique

Any ideas for improvement on this portrait or tips going forward?

<edit> up'd the exposure abit.

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Beautiful girl. The shot seems a bit dark and her skin tones appear a bit red on my monitor. Here's a quick edit where I brightened the image and lifted the shadows too. I also adjusted skin tones to a warmer hue. I also enhanced her eyes slightly.

I used CS6's raw editor to adjust the lights/shadows and w/b and finished in CS6 to adjust her eyes, ajust contrast/brightness and to further adjust overall warmer tone.

I would:

-Choose a brighter background

-Looks like you PP her teeth in making them whiter, you should have done so with the eyes as well

-Her face seems a bit underexposed, you could use flash to lighten her face a bit more

-Her pose makes her neck look a bit weird and I would make her turn her upperbody a bit more towards the camera.

Beautiful girl so keep shooting!

Thanks doc but that edit looks way blown out on my monitor calibrated with i1 display but I can see that my original pic was abit underexposed

ya the angle of the head on a tight head shot just doesnt look right

The extreme turn of her head makes her neck wrinkle. Its just an odd angle for such a tight shot. she is a lovely girl, but the pose looks uncomfortable and you need to get some light in her eyes to make them sparkle.

Thanks guys... I appreciate the feedback.

Just a quick try

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rioni wrote in post #14835474
Thanks doc but that edit looks way blown out on my monitor calibrated with i1 display but I can see that my original pic was abit underexposed

Interesting, my edit doesn't appear 'blown out' at all on my monitor. I may have to do a calibration on it soon.

Doc, its not blown out, but it may be a tad too bright. The OP's is certainly very red, and I totally agree about a different angle, this one just looks awkward.

Maybe it's my monitor that needs to be calibrated. T.E.R's edit looks a good bit more red than my original post. I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight. Again, thanks again everyone - I'll be reshooting in a few days and will not be using this pose

I see a lot of red too, almost like a sunburn. Here is my take on it. Softened the skin wrinkles, cleaned some flyaways, brightened, desaturated some red about 10% but held back the lips and eyes.
EDIT: And I cleaned the strong verticals in the background.

I don't see the redness either but my Dell 3011 seems to have s slight green/blueish cast over it in RGB mode. Im getting myself an i1 somewhere this month as well to calibrate my screen. On the other hand I dont see a blown out picture (Navydoc's) either.

Good to read my edit doesn't appear blown out to others. Thanks Flo and T.E.R.

Flo wrote in post #14835648
Doc, its not blown out, but it may be a tad too bright. The OP's is certainly very red, and I totally agree about a different angle, this one just looks awkward.

+1 Not blown, but too hot for my taste.