First impression: wonderful portrait.
Technical aspects: The lightening and DOF is very good, the tones are great.
Composition: powerful and dynamic.
Summary: great. Love it
This is really interesting. Her eyes - wow. The angle of the dog in relationship to her is like an invisible line. I like it - not the typical cheesy "girl with her dog" shot!!
The set up here is perfect. It appears dark on my monitor, but that is my only suggestion. The expressions and the subject placements and everything else is spot on. You did just a marvelous job with this series! :)
Awesome, definitely get the sense that the dog is VERY protective and watchfull of the little girl, awesome, if you can do this on a regular basis, perhaps there could be some money made doing pet / child shots.
An absolutely stunning shot IMO. The catchlights in your niece's eyes work really well. The only minor improvement that I feel might be worth proposing would be a little work in blending in the blur around Shasta. Great portrait.
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This was the first thumbnail to grab my attention, nice dynamics between the two characters. As i've already mentioned, imho the backdrop could be cleaned up a little. It does seem like the focus isnt as spoton as in the other photos, but this may just be lack of sharpening. The black and white works well, but it doesnt seem as though you've got full use of the tonal range. this may be just cause i spend most of my time with real b+w film :-p But yeah, reallly nice.