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These are really great, lighting, DOF, etc. She is a real beauty and you have captured her at her best.
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Nice series all three. However, the second even though my favourite (pose, composition, and colour wise) seems a tiny bit soft focused. It seems the ear got the sharpest focus. #3 needs a little warming up of her skin tones.
These are really great, lighting, DOF, etc. She is a real beauty and you have captured her at her best.
Wow NJ, she is a beautiful little girl!!!! Your photos came out amazing!!!!! I notice that you brought out her beautiful skin tone. I love the pose with the Teddy in number 1 but I would have to say that #2 is my favorite. You can beat a happy smile like that!!!!!
#3 is my favorite. Her expression is great and the pose is ver innocent and elegant. The lighting is best in it as well. At first I thought an umbrella had been used on it until you said it was all natural so good job seeing the light. The light in it has more direction than the flat lighting of the other 2.
#1 is cute of the girl but the lighting is dull and boring (except for the backlighting which I think is its saving grace).
#2 doesn't do much for me. The smile is cute of the girl, of course, but for looking away portraits or profile portraits, etc. the lighting needs to shape the face for it to be interesting. Flat lighting, even though it's soft, will not shape the face like directional light. The sun spots on her hair are distracting so you could have hit 2 birds with one stone by placing a black reflector on a stand to block the sun from hitting her hair and it would also block light from the broad side of her face giving the illusion that you added a light when in fact, you took light away. This is called subtractive lighting. Give it a try.
Other than that I'd say just fix a few stray hairs and warm up #3. Nice job.
That second photo is downright WONDERFUL!
The blue-eyed-ness of your little "Blue-eyed Beauty" comes out best in that photo. I also love how the light spreads evenly across her face, how you set your DOF and focus, that it is a 3/4 portrait - and, of course, how her blue eyes SHINE in that one!!!
But, in fact, all three are nice, only the middle one really stands out for me.