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Pinkie

Fuji XT1 +56mm @f/1.2

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Nice! Like the overall cast of pink. Nice eyes. You think her face could stand a little more light?

Nice use of colour. The diagonal pose works well, her eyes are pin sharp and full of detail, the light is flatteringly soft with subtle warmth.

Issues with it.

1, her hair, being rather untidy, makes the photo look like a snap shot, which is a shame given all its other good points.

2, she could do with just a touch of make-up or Photoshop "airbrushing" as I call it, to just even out the tones and colours in her skin, I don't mean her freckles, which are perfectly fine, mainly the small areas of slightly pink skin. I suppose, if her make-up, or airbrishing, was done beautifully then the tussled hair would be totally fine.

I would also have liked to see 2 other versions, one looking into the lens and another with a bit of a smile perhaps looking as she is, down. But that is just me.

It was windy day and she is 16 years old

I am confussed as to what point you are trying to answer. If you are referring to the tussled hair comment in point 1, please read my point 2 above, I am not worried about her hair, if the airbrushing is done. This would lift the shot by giving her a touch of a professional shoot model look, and so the hair would be read as deliberately untidy, which would be great. If you are referring to her complexion being effected by the weather I understand that problem too, but we are about solutions, not problems, and airbrushing would be a great solution to her complexion and indirectly to her hair being untidy, lifting the shot to a much higher level, if done sensitively, not masking her lovely freckles.

I hope I have now better explained myself. In short, a touch of subtle skin tone smoothing would make your photo look very good indeed, much more professional and something you would both be proud of.

Yes, but I do not want that.

I'm going to have to agree with Ian that you need to fix the tones on her skin. Its normal for teenagers to have splotchy skin so a little frequency separation to fix the tonal changes will do wonders for both images you have shown. In both her forehead looks great with color and tone changes but her cheeks have red splotches and are lighter. Even it up and dodge/burn in a little contrast and it will really pop nice

Thank you, another good pose.

Do you add detail (sharpening) to your images, either in camera or in the edit? If so maybe just a bit less would help.

Yes a liitle bit, but this is link from flicker and sharpening is added automaticly

That explains it. I am not at all keen on sharpening and flicker has really degraded your image, unfortunately. But hey, what can you do?

Open in a full screen :)

I did and have again. I even clicked to magnify it. It is too sharpened for me. And I can't understand why you don't want to even try doing an airbrush job on her skin. But it is your photo so your call. Keep it up, mate.

nice!