My older sister, Melanie.

Hi everyone! Our parents live on the other side of the country and I went to visit them for a week last month. I wanted to take some nice recent photos of Melanie up for them to frame.
This is the first time I've really ever done a planned shoot at all really so I'd love to hear everyone's feedback!
While I love C&C, please don't suggest skin smoothing, I wanted to take these photos so our parents would remember us as we are - not airbrushed! I appreciate that it can make a photo 100x better but it wasn't the look I was after here
Thanks for looking!

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Your sister is beautiful. Love her piercings. I have my nose pierced as well. Looks like you guys were having fun while snapping. Thanks for sharing

I really like the first two..and on those I wouldnt even say smooth her skin if you wanted me too She is beautiful, great job capturing that!

Very nice. I'd be interested in seeing color versions too. Sepia toned images always evoke feelings of nostalgia and I think a colored variant would seem a little more contemporary. Either way, well done.

Thanks for all the comments guys, I appreciate it.
Mason, I also thought the same thing.. I very stupidly shot them all in sepia straight from the camera (these 3 anyway) as we were trying to replicate a photo of our grandmother taken years and years ago. I wish I had just converted them to sepia afterwards but LUCKILY, I'm pretty sure we can reshoot. Haha. I'll be sure to post some of her in colour at a later date. Also, I just checked out your website and it's really beautiful (especially the female form section). Well done and thanks again for the comments!

# 2 looks great, such a beautiful smile!

Thanks xoldboy, I agree- she has an amazing smile!

I love #2 & 3 , she does have a lovely heart warming smile, I wouldve taken a shot of her straight with her nose pointing towards the camera.