Greetings from the Critique Club!
This is a lovely image, it looks like it should be in a fashion magazine. Your cousin is lovely and the warm tones of her hair and skin offset the coolness of the bg perfectly. The fact that you can't see her eyes adds some mystique. If the sparkler had been doing its thing (those things are impossible to get going at times) this could have been on the front page.
Onto the technicals. Lighting is decent and although high ISOs are not Nikon's thing, the image isn't noisy. The vignette here looks more like an exposure matter than done in post. Composition is straightforward but for an image like this you don't need to get fancy. You just need to get it, and you did. Wish this image had scored higher but that's life here on DPC.
Hope this has been helpful, please continue shooting and entering!
Susan |