Beautiful Subject; How's the picture?

[Troose]

This is a shot of a friend of mine who agreed to pose for me. I'd like to hear your opinions on it.

[UnFocuzed]

Nice shot and beautiful model but the top of her head and end of ponytail is cropped off which was the first thing i noticed wrong. Cheers!

[ACArmstrong]

Nice composition - beautiful model, and I don't mind the tight crop at all - in fact, I think that helps to make it interesting.

I think I would change the lighting a bit on this though - her back becomes a dominating feature of the photo, because there's no real depth/shading/shadow to it, and it ends up looking like this heart-shaped lumpy thing in the middle of a really nice shot.

[natatbeach]

even tighter on theright and I agree with the distracting heart shaped spot that's the first thing I saw which takes away from the beautiful subject.

I think the pose is nice ---even though I've seen that pose look tense she was very relaxed---I'd also do somthing about the dark shadow along her left cheek and getting a smidge more detail in her nose and lip area...

easy fixes but I think overall you did a very nice job with this