First Studio Shoot

This is my first time to shoot in a studio. Any comments to improve my skills are appreciated. Thanks.

Lovely shot.

It does look like flash has been used, you may want to try diffusing it a lttle to soften the light on her and her, it's lovely tho, clear and sharp and nice colours..

Colors look good, Nice start!

Thank you very much for your comments.

The only diffuser I used was the 42" reflective umbrella. Maybe I should have used a shoot through or a softbox.

Try the same shot with the brolly closed, or slighty closed it might give it a more dramatic and shadowy feel

Stunning model...would love her eyes to pop with some catch-lights though.

It's a good shot, but there's not a lot happening in it, so it's a picture of a woman sitting on a couch with some cushions at her feet. Maybe if you'd arranged the cushions differently - had her holding the white and black patterned one and laughing, or had the model rest her arm along the top of the couch. Play about and see what works.

Nitpicks:
-The left cheek looks hot from the lighting.
-As mentioned above, there are no catchlights in the eyes so they don't pop.
-The bottom of her boots are dirty. Not a good look.
-There's a shift in the hue of the background in the final third of the image, like a vertical gradient. It doesn't bother me, but I thought I should draw your eye to question the detail.
-There's a split in the wall and a shadow cast by the couch camera right.
-There's a piece of dirt on the cushion on the top left of the frame.

Thanks for posting.

@urfastimfaster - Thanks for the tip on the catchlight. I should have seen it during the shoot. missed that one.

@IrishK - Thinks for the nitpicks. I like how you see these little things. I appreciate them. The shift in hue, i think, is light falloff, if Im not mistaken.