What no comments??
Ron, I remember this beautiful woman in another post. She is very engaging! I have no experience in shooting portraits(they are hard for me) so my comments will come as an observer. Again she is a beautiful woman and the very well proportioned for her body frame. Her blouse, knit top is extremely complimentary to her features. This being said I find that her left facial light is too bright. There also is a conflict with that brightness on her face(left) moving to her right side shoulder/chest area. But that may be just a lighting issue.
She has lovely hands and has placed them very properly. I love the fact that she is entirely in focus.
The bg is wonderful and compliments her.
Just my $.02 as an observer in this case.
Best! More
Dan
On this monitor instead of the one beside me, the face highlight is more pleasing, but just a hair hot. I expect you want the face to be the subject so seems appropriate to me it is brighter. All my fresnels have either barn doors or top hats/snoots and I would have had one light restricted to the face then fill over all including the body. Could be done in post as well You nailed the focus and the skin and wood texture is wonderful, always nice with b&w. At first I thought the bg was satin with folds, texture which I can get from hanging one of my red satin sheets on a boom arm or cross bar. They are multi taskers on bed and as bg. She can handle broad lighting, ie shooting from highlight side, but keep in mind the classic light pattern was paramount or butterfly. And by having her looking down somewhat, that generates the classic eyelash shadows. You have some great lashes to work with here. If you are using fresnels flood them to harden the shadows. Looks like you may have burned the lower r but I find the hands just a tad rigid and might want to burn that area to down play it and dodge the other side of the wood because of the wonderful texture. Would like to see the hands a touch softer, more fingers more curved. Great job.
