A portrait

[Evertking]

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[Shadowman]

Nice golden glow.

[Manfred M]

Nice image, Mike. You have achieved a good balance of the sunlight coming through the trees. It is not overpowering the subject, but is none the less, still a bit of a distraction.

I find your crop is a bit too tight along the bottom; elbow too close to the edge of the frame. There is a strange artifact along the bottom right hand corner of the image.

[Geoff F]

Probably the simplest edit to cover the items mentioned by Manfred would be to crop tighter at the bottom, perhaps just below the scarf fringe and go with a square scene ?

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Mike,

That is nice, I definitely think having eye contact helps enormously.

If I'd shot this, there are some things I'd be doing to 'finish it off', now I'll be the first to admit that each is quite minor, but when you get most things 'right', that only leaves 'smaller' things to fix. It becomes about having 'an eye for (sometimes small) detail'.

1 Crop; while I agree the bottom edge has the issues Manfred has mentioned, I find there's too much space above and to camera left.
2 There's an artefact I'd deal with, the flare spot above her right (our left) ear
3 Above her right (our left) shoulder is a branch from the tree behind which is poking forwards in to the Depth of Field, I would probably clone his out if it were me, but your mileage may vary (YMMV) as they say
4 There's a well backlit curved bit of hair directly above her head, which due to its sharpness, shape and brightness, I would also clone out

I hope those thoughts are helpful,
Dave

[rpcrowe]

Cheyenne has absolutely beautiful eyes and I love it when she is looking at the camera.

I agree with Dave's suggestions above...

Additionally, if this were my image (which, of course, it isn't) I would select each pupil using a NIK Viveza control point and use the sliders to increase the structure (pretty drastically), increase the contrast a bit and increase the saturation very slightly.