City portrait critique

[lerabu]

Hello all!

This is a portrait of my wife, we went out to town this morning to get some spicy sausage hot dogs at the main square. Of course, as it was a nice day I grabbed my camera bag! We're expecting a new member of our small family so we'll be all into portraits in about six months, so I would like your critique on the photograph so that I can make them as best as possible when the time comes

The conditions were the following:
- Overcast sky with sunny breaks, one of the breaks can be seen in the background.
- We were in the shadow of the tent so that you could say it was overcast to shadowy conditions
- It's winter here, so the angle of the sun to the earth affects the light, it comes from a much lower angle than in the spring and summer months

I am looking for critique on:
- Colours - too plain or too vivid? I shoot in RAW, normal colours mode so that I have the freedom to change colours in Lightroom and Photoshop without having to work with the saturation algorithms of the camera.
- Pop - Does the subject stand out enough from the background? This was shot with the 18-105mm Nikon 3.5-5.6 kit lens with a progressive f-stop, when you go to longer focal lengths the f-number increases automatically. Should I get the 50mm 1.8 D AF-S?
- Composition - The place of the subject in respect to the whole frame and the background.
- Action - Was the moment of savouring the juicy, spicy sausage hot dog captured, or does it j+look like I caught her half way through a bite?

EXIF Data
Camera Nikon D80
Exposure 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture f/5.0
Focal Length 52 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Aperture priority mode

Editing in Lightroom: Histogram levels adjustments, White Balance correction by 50 Kelvin, Brightness, Contrast, Vibrance, Saturation, Tone curve set to reflect medium contrast.

Thank you in advance for your comments!

[mjsnikon]

beautiful... but it looks like you caught her between bites while she is chewing...nice portrait overall though....

[lerabu]

Originally Posted by mjsnikon

beautiful... but it looks like you caught her between bites while she is chewing...nice portrait overall though....

Haha! Yeah! It does!

Thanks!

[Peggyjom]

Took a look at your flicker account photos. Love the one marked Tamera portrait.

as you asked about the one you posted it is a nice shot of her but I'm not to wild about the sandwich and her han being blurred.

[lerabu]

HI Peggy!

Thanks for the comments on both the photo above and the Flickr page

Yeah that blur is kind of disturbing the eye. I was in a rush photographing cause we had to go, I don't know how the shutter speed dropped so low :/ I should have upped the ISO maybe a little.

The sandwaich was more for her enjoying it, but I can see how it is the odd one out when it comes to portraiting.

I will try fixing that in the future