Thanks to Allex for sitting in my home studio, dripping clay all over the place, working on a cracked bowl while I snapped pictures, when I know she would have rather been in her studio working on something that wasn't already cracked.
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Interesting lighting for this setting. Certainly isolates the subject nicely. Good detail overall, and it's interesting to look at. Good luck in the challenge.
I like that this shows me something about the person, and is not just a bland pretty picture of a face. Would really like that fuzzy thing on the left cropped or cloned out because it distracts from what is a really nice portrait. Voting an 8 anyway because the rest is so strong.