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Well, congrats on finding / booking ... that's a step that some folks find daunting.
As to the images ... my overall thought is that of "glowing" that emotes association to pregnancy. With that in mind, I might look to lift the tonal values of her face somewhat and see if you can draw a tonal connection between her face and her belly ... most notable in the first & last images as a creative element.
In the last one, I'm not crazy about the vertical drapery lines ... competes with attention to the star of the image. You could blow those out in post, or at least soften them, I think.
The 3rd one is a little awkward for me as the crossed legs pose isn't the most flattering, but it does have a kind of raw vibe to it. I do like the setting @ bedroom, but hmmm @ pose with the foreshortening that is enlarging the legs / toes. Nothing better to offer, atm though.
2nd one ... I really dig the color theme connection between her dress and the booties. We see a similar color connect in the first one ... BUT, that is a connect to the drapes, i.e. no real emotive value there.
The first one could possibly benefit from pulling up the brightness in her face as mentioned before.
Portraiture is not my forte, and it has been a VERY LONG TIME since I photographed a pregnant woman, so take my .02 for what it's worth @ about half that much.
Creative license is all up to you, but here's a ROUGH (pp @ small jpgs) example of what I'm thinking about for last one.
There is one more thing (maybe), but I really can't help you much with it ... her emotive expression seems to be a bit stiff. We can lift her tonal values toward "glow" but her facial tension doesn't seem there. I recognize it because ... that's how almost ALL my portrait work would go. I sucked at getting the emotive out of people ... yet I could shoot weddings just fine, because I didn't need to extract the emotive, just capture it as it naturally occurred.
Not sure if the intent here was for a more "thoughtful" vibe ... but a little more soft smile probably wouldn't have hurt anything for at least one or so. I think the first one has the best facial emotive of the bunch. My guess is she was thinking about the photographic process also ... probably need to keep her thinking about her baby a bit more.
Karen ...
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