Taken in my kitchen with a set of 3 desk lamp. Now I can only imagine how much easier it would be to have proper studio like lighting. I was struggling to get a decent shutter speed without increasing the ISO.
In Photoshop, I did some dodge, sponge, desaturate, quite a few healing, crop, resize, usm.
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Considering the lighting equipment you had to work with, this turned out really well. The model is great and the pose is good but I’d rather see an expression with a little more spunk. She looks like a spunky person and the expression she has seems like she is holding back. Kind of like she is trying to force a un-natural smile.
There was one comment on the shirt and I agree. Either have her wear a more neutral shirt, or concentrate the composition on the face (which is my portrait style). The shirt is the most vivid part of this photo and I doubt that was your intention.
You had mixed comments on the lighting and a lacks impact comment, here is what I think: The lighting on the face is perfect, but not for the background you used. Crop off the shirt and change the background to a dark color and she will stand out perfectly. Here you have a grayish background and a dimly lit face and they just kind of blend together. With the dull-lighter background you need brighter lighting to stand out.
Overall you did pretty good. I probably would have scored it a 6. Your DOF is dead on and the focus/sharpness is perfect. You have a good grasp of lighting, you should get some good lighting equipment so you can do some real damage!
I hope this is helpful, I’m not an expert by any means so this is all just my opinion. Feel free to PM if you want discuss anything I said further.
Very well done, I like the gradient lighting in the background, but that light casted a very strange bright spot on her cheek there. I think if you moved her a bit away from the background you could avoid this
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face is exposed well. however because you chose to shoot your light from below head level there is not a lot of light to cover the hair area. and your model has a great hair style. either use a another light as a hair light or get a reflector to channel some light back down onto the hair
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