Ms. Red

I shot this pic earlier today and would love to get some feedback if you are willing..... Many thanks

Love the lighting, love the color balance, and I think she's at a pretty good angle. After I noticed all that, though, I noticed "uncomfortable mouth"... which is something I usually see when someone's trying to smile and not show braces. She has the dimpled chin-skin thing going on, and I get the same thing if I'm forcing my mouth closed too hard.

However, if this is how she usually smiles, you can't help that!

Oh....and you could photoshop the one stray hair that's going down in between her eyebrows.
Good job

Very well done. Almost a Mona Lisa smile. The coloring is beautiful and the eyes about perfect.

I really like the lighting
Very nice

Love the eyes in this one. Great lighting!

Love it love the eyes and love how the hair fades into the backgound on the right. May I ask what lens you used?

The lighting is fantastic, and the eyes are just gorgeous! My only minor nit is the few stray hairs across her forehead....an easy fix though.

lulugus wrote in post #5999216
Love the lighting, love the color balance, and I think she's at a pretty good angle. After I noticed all that, though, I noticed "uncomfortable mouth"... which is something I usually see when someone's trying to smile and not show braces. She has the dimpled chin-skin thing going on, and I get the same thing if I'm forcing my mouth closed too hard.

However, if this is how she usually smiles, you can't help that!

Oh....and you could photoshop the one stray hair that's going down in between her eyebrows.
Good job

Thank you for your nice comments and feedback. I didn't didn't notice the stray hair at first but see exactly what you mean- I agree, it will look better once I remove that. LOL re:uncomfortable mouth- she was going for serious and trying not to laugh. Must be a teenager thing

Titus213 wrote in post #5999249
Very well done. Almost a Mona Lisa smile. The coloring is beautiful and the eyes about perfect.

Thank you so much!

digger58 wrote in post #5999654
I really like the lighting
Very nice

Thank you

Ook wrote in post #5999667
Love the eyes in this one. Great lighting!

Thank you very much.

Canadian Techdiver wrote in post #6000300
Love it love the eyes and love how the hair fades into the backgound on the right. May I ask what lens you used?

Thank you! This was taken outdoors at around 7pm when the sun was beginning to lower in the sky. The sun was straight on in the direction of her right eye. I used a black fabric draped over a kennel fence next to the house. I used a 30D with the 50mm 1.8 lens ISO 250, SS 1/400, AV 4.0 shot in AV mode no flash. Hope that helps.

rmr21 wrote in post #6000338
The lighting is fantastic, and the eyes are just gorgeous! My only minor nit is the few stray hairs across her forehead....an easy fix though.

Thank you for your nice comments. Thanks for the suggestion re: the stray hairs- I agree, I will need to touch that up- thanks again

That helps a lot. as I am just getting into portraits and trying to learn so much...