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albc28Comment: I am not a portrait expert by any means, but I will give you my immediate responses as a lay person.
1.Looking at your shutter speed it may account for a few "things" - she looks very soft focus/ out of focus, but at that speed, the slightest muscles move will be enough to cause the blur. Experienced this recently in the "Alternative Medicine" challenge - no matter how "still" I stayed, microscopic movements caused blur.
The Depth of Field may be too shallow - the focus seems to be on the centre of the arm where I can see clearly defined hairs, but after that the focus weakens.
2. Lack of definition - needing sharpening
3. The colour seems off - very yellow tones - the skin is even yellow in its highlight areas, and the eyebrows are tending towards orange
4. Compositionally: too much skin for a portrait - well anonymous skin: the arm takes up a large area of the image, while I am wishing that the face filled the frame more
5. Ummm tricky to say but just a bit too spotty ... the body freckles/moles are fine (a bit numerous and some could be cloned out however) but the facial red spots definitely need to be cloned out. If an image like this were submitted for a challenge it would fall prey to subjective ideas of loveliness - while natural beauty is to be applauded, in a challenge, it would be penalised, because only truly wrinkly, weathered skin or plastic studio model skin passes....teenage spots are just awkward to look at.
Message edited by author 2007-03-09 03:34:34. 
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