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She's a cutie!
It looks like she was surrounded by foliage, standing in dappled sunlight. Notice the big hot spot on the left side of her head. You could try to move her so that no direct sunlight was hitting her. Often though, there is no place under foliage where there is no sunlight hitting the subject.
That leaves you with a couple of choices. If you have an assistant, they can use a reflector as a "gobo" to block the direct light. If you have two assistants, one can block the light and the other can hold a white reflector to kick some light back onto your subject.
The other choice is to shoot at a different time of day when the light is much softer. Position your subject at the edge of the foliage with the sun setting behind and a big open field behind you. This golden hour light is very flattering and often does not require any fill.
I like that you shot wide open. I would suggest you double your ISO and shutter speed, assuming this was hand held (if not, ignore). The general rule is 1/focal length if you have great handholding technique. Most should shoot 2x 1/focal length, or at least 1/600 with a 300mm lens.
Finally, I have some post processing suggestions. If you aren't doing so now, shoot RAW. This gives you a lot more flexibility when post processing.
When shooting under a canopy of leaves like this, it is hard to keep green out of the skin tones. You've got some green reflections here. The aforementioned reflector kicking in some "pure" sunlight would go a long way to help. If you shoot under these conditions a lot, buy a X-Rite Passport color checker. This goes way beyond a simple w grey card, Expodisk or WhiBal card. You take a reference frame of the card at the subject position. Then, you use they software that comes with it to create a custom profile (not WB). This gives the most accurate color correction for not only the WB, but also for the camera and lens.
Finally, your image looks a little too contrasty, especially for a young subject. That accentuates any splotchiness in the skin tone. It has also made her dark eyes go even darker.
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