Melanie

This was from our local camera club's annual portrait shoot. Two 580 EX II strobes in to Softlighter II. 5Dii and 135mm f/2L.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/9RGF​uz

Very nice portrait, I like the lighting and DOF.
And she has really beautiful eyes

Good model and pose. The lighting also looks good.

IMHO, the DOF should be increased!

We blur backgrounds to make the model stand out strongly against the (blurred) background. But here you have no visible background.
With greater DOF, her lovely hair would look even better. The brows would become clearer and the lips would be sharper.

Excellent lighting on this one

well done, lighting and posing

Really nice, I like it. The model also has some sort of cuteness in that shot. Well done!

Thanks for the nice comments, they are very generous!

JGR wrote in post #17381504
Good model and pose. The lighting also looks good.

IMHO, the DOF should be increased!

We blur backgrounds to make the model stand out strongly against the (blurred) background. But here you have no visible background.
With greater DOF, her lovely hair would look even better. The brows would become clearer and the lips would be sharper.

Thanks for your comment, but that wasn't my goal. The goal was to draw the viewer's attention to the eyes, thus the use of the thin depth of field.

Fair enough.

I dig this. Nice positioning/pose to really bring me in. You may have lost a bit in the far eye (lighting?) but overall I think you nailed your goal to bring attention to her eyes! Good stuff.

BRAVOOOOO