My First Attempt in Portraits.

[wasserstoff]

Taken by Nikon D5000 50mm F1.8G, 1/10sec, ISO 800.

[John Hendry]

Nice soft light and good expresions, watch the background the horizontial line is a bit distracting.

all the best

[BigFuzzy]

Pssst, check out the forum rules and remove a couple of your images and ask some specific questions, please? Oh, and exif too!

[nmajmani]

Saw this over in SYS and I'm glad you posted it here for critique. First off, I think your lighting is even and balanced, so good work with that. However, the image does appear a tad on the warm side, perhaps either a white balance issue or overuse of a warming filter. Either can be fixed with the slight application of a cooling filter.

Secondly, while I like what you have going with depth of field I think your focal range here is too narrow. I would have liked to have seen the subject's shoulder clear as her face, or at least a little clearer than the background. Right now, her head pops off her shoulder, where it may be better to have her whole body pop from the background.

I do like the lights reflecting in her eyes. They are a very nice touch.

[wasserstoff]

Originally Posted by nmajmani

Saw this over in SYS and I'm glad you posted it here for critique. First off, I think your lighting is even and balanced, so good work with that. However, the image does appear a tad on the warm side, perhaps either a white balance issue or overuse of a warming filter. Either can be fixed with the slight application of a cooling filter.

Secondly, while I like what you have going with depth of field I think your focal range here is too narrow. I would have liked to have seen the subject's shoulder clear as her face, or at least a little clearer than the background. Right now, her head pops off her shoulder, where it may be better to have her whole body pop from the background.

I do like the lights reflecting in her eyes. They are a very nice touch.

Thanks nmajmani! I didnt notice DOP part! Glad that you pointed it out!