Karina

[Javier]

[rpcrowe]

Lovely lady but, IMO the candle light is a tad too bright and the shadows on her face are a tad too dark.
I placed a Viveza control point over the candle lighting and reduced the brightness a tad and placed another control point on the shadow (camera left) of the face and opened the shadow just a tiny bit.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Richard's comments. In a portrait, the props should never overpower the subject and that is what has happened here. The candle and the table, with the objects sitting on it overpower your model. While she is beautifully dressed and nicely posed, she is overpowered by the left side of the scene.

In part this is a lighting issue as well as an outfit issue. The clothes she is wearing are quite dark when compared to the left side of the scene. Some of the areas of shadow are not working all that well, especially the eyes, which need to be brighter and more open (from a lighting design standpoint).

[rpcrowe]

I this an improvement?