I send my daughter to visit her cousins for a few weeks, and she not only gets her picture on the Internet, but she gets addicted to DPChallenge! I'm going to have to start fighting her for camera time now!! This is a nice photo (I'm trying to be unbiased here). The lighting is intentionally harsh to create the mood you wanted, yet you succeeded in getting a wide tonal range, particularly on her face which was probably tricky without being able to use the dodge tool. I don't usually care for borders, but the thick one here works as part of the tightly cropped and nearly square composition to emphasize being "boxed in".
I think this is a good idea...and Im hoping she is simply a great little actress...I would hate to think someone so young and precious could be as disturbed as she seems. You did a nice job with this shot and your model deserves congrats on her emotive abilities! Good luck in the challenge....nice work :)
I like the way you approached the challenge and it's a good photo.
I think the impression of ' turned inside herself' would have been better if her eyes where pointing straight forward though. Now it somehow looks like she is distracted by something and thus not just inside herself anymore.