Portrait of a friend

Took this one a couple months back, what do you think cc

opps guess it would help if I attached the photo right?

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Good work, could use an exposure bump, and that's a weird crop. It a good shot though... i like it.

Thanks, yeah i do kind of have her dead center huh

Having a subject dead center is not wrong in itself. The rule of thirds is not a law, just something that can help with composition. She certainly is underexposed though. The overall image being darker gives greater saturation to the background and brings out the bit of red in there, but you'll probably have to process these and make her stand out a bit more.

A mild adjustment brush with a differentiation of a stop or half depending, could help this image.

Here's a quick edit in Windows Live viewer. Too tired to open up any image editor

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much better edit imo ^

Thanks for the cc, how is this?

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