my girlfriend

[rds]

shot w/ nikon d3000, can't remember settings settings. I'm trying to teach myself. I've owned the camera(first dslr) for a couple weeks. colors good? etc. etc.

[LeeR]

The colors look like they are right on the money. The problems, and they are not serious, are the rather shallow depth of field and the fact that there are stray hairs obscuring your girlfriend's eyes.
The eyes, as they say, are the windows of the soul, and it is one of the first things we look for in a portrait. For that reason we have to be very careful about when and how we allow them to be obscured. A hat rakishly angled over one eye; no problem. A few stray hairs; not so much.
Depth of field isn't a huge problem since the most important things are in focus, but we can see that by the time we get to the hair on the side of her head it is already out of focus. For an outdoor shot, you should have been able to stop down a bit more for greater DOF.

[looking4OPH]

The stray hairs distract my eye. Were the sparkles around the eye intentional?

[rds]

the sparkles were in her make-up, not on purpose. the stray hairs i didn't notice until loaded on my computer. it was windy out yesterday.