My friend's portraits - my first attempt. Critics welcome

[Camomilla]

Hi to all,
my colleague and friend asked me to make her some shots for her CV, unfortunately there wasn't much light (it was veery cloudy) and the white walls of my sitting-room, where we took the photos, seem greyish... anyway, here below I'm posting 3 variants of the same shots with different PP: in the first on, the original one, I've only changed a bit the WB (instead of rocorded value I changed it to Daylight - cloudy) and that's all. in the second two pics I applied the following effects: to the first one I applied an effect called "glamour glow", and to the second one - the sunshine effect.
should I have left the "original" pic as it was? are the two pics with the "special effects" better? any critics are welcome. thanks in advance!!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/...d69d0fb968.jpg

[Photologyst]

These are very nice. She has a lovely face, perhaps another angle with chin tilted up instead of down?

For a CV these might be a tad too sexy and “glamorous” unless she is going into the fashion or art business?

There is a shadow at the head on the top right as well as a “stripe” of a door frame(?) and one can see a tad of the furniture.

[Camomilla]

Photologyst, first of all, thank you for replying! actually my friend would like to go into the fashion business!! the stripe you see on the right side of the photo is a piece of a picture-frame, i wanted to cut it off but then I thought I would cut her hair too much... but may be it's better to cut off some hair instead of seeing that distracting stripe?

[Camomilla]

is this one better?

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by Camomilla

is this one better?

Looks very nice. I like the angle of the head. You could experiment with another background. If she wants "glamour" shots then you need to do a bit more.

Check out this portrait program: Imagenomic Gallery

The portrait pros will no doubt weigh in soon.

[Camomilla]

Thank you so much! I'll check it out.

and... sorry if I posted in the wrong section.

[SnapShotShooter]

Use the clone tool to remove the distracting edge of the frame on the right.