A re-edit from my first ever shoot.

I am still very new to portrait photography having done my 5th shoot (3rd with flash) yesterday.

I went back to a shot as I felt I could maybe do a little better now I know more. Anyway.

Noobie mistakes happend, I overcooked a light and it made a quite large hotspot. Most people seemed to like the composition etc. so I decided to keep it.

I went back to it to "fix" the hotspot and make it look more natural.

Any C&C would be lovely as I have still much growing to do having only had my 5th shoot today.

Original edit:

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Your images don't show, and when I click the image to go to see the image, that doesn't work either, I get the message, "This is not the page you're looking for." You may see them, but I can't, maybe it's something that you can fix.

Randy

Interesting stuff on your flickr, hope you can get these working.

The first two are pretty good, but the third on is really excellent.

Third shot is very good. First two the skin is way over done. Looks like a wax figure. The second one she even appears to have a beard shadow on her cheeks and the detail around her nose is gone. Makes her nose sort of disappear into her face.

The re-edit looks much better, always nice to see how much you have improved with time.

Really like the third shot as well.

Jonathan - for the girl, agree with comments above re: over-processing....you have lost the modelling light defining her features (look at her nose esp.)
The last image looks gray/lacking contrast...here is a quick edit using levels only:

Spike44 wrote in post #15643257
Jonathan - for the girl, agree with comments above re: over-processing....you have lost the modelling light defining her features (look at her nose esp.)
The last image looks gray/lacking contrast...here is a quick edit using levels only:

agree with everything and you did to his image what I was going to mention.