CC request and do not go easy.

[harishu]

cool..that is a whole lot of pointers. thank you.

so runnah's b/w with braineak's background would be good? atleast with what's available.

Ah okay so it's supposed to be a somewhat formal portrait of her as the main subject. In that case:
1) Car is super distracting. Backgrounds should either be just a content-less blur, or they should add relevant context to the person (like a portrait of a skier with fir trees, or a chef in her kitchen, etc.). They shouldn't be very salient, clear images of stuff that has nothing to do with the subject.
2) At the top of an escalator/stairs is an odd place to have a portrait. Again, not relevant to the subject or neutral? Don't have it there if possible. Same goes for the doors in lower left. Not pretty, not relevant.
3) Generally portraits should be in vertical (portrait) orientation, unless something important is happening off to the side (or if there's implied motion). Here, nothing important is happening off to the side, so fill the frame with your subject - her, and avoid the dead space.
4) The color white balance seems off. Too warm.
5) Her face is very under-lit. It's about as bright as the rest of the scene, but you want it to stand out, so you want it to be brighter. Standing under a convenient light in the vicinity, or a sun beam, or using a flash are ways to highlight the subject separate from the background. Since the car ad produces its own light, it is especially distracting by being brighter than your subject.
6) Looking straight at the camera with squared-off shoulders is not a very interesting nor flattering pose. Unless you're a body builder or something and want to show off bulk, you're better off tilting the shoulders at an angle to the camera (in one of hundreds of different ways) Hands sort of awkwardly hanging mid torso isn't super great either.

edit: runnah's black and white edit above is my favorite so far precisely because it makes the car almost impossible to distinguish as a car, making the background into the neutral thing that it should be. (Although if I could read arabic or whatever that is, I might still be distracted by text). Her face also looks more attention grabbing there.

 

[Derrel]

My main issue is the color of her face and the back of her hand has a big disparity. He face appears far to yellowish to me, no matter what color of foundation and powder she's using. I see no problems with the large handbag/carryon, especially since it's obviously an airport shot. This shot has a "context" to it when seen as originally shown....upstairs, airport concourse, luggage trolly handle right by her, a big Mercedes advertisement on a backlighted billboard, woman dressed in red with a large handbag...so she can use it as one of her "carry-on" items...it's also a nice bag too, which conveys status and wealth. It has a spontaneous, sort of grabbed-brief-second-of-real-life ethos to it.

Besides correcting the too-yellow face, I would also very subtly take the clone tool and using a soft-edged, 30-35 pixel oval brush shape, "paint out" the under-eye creases using low opacity (70%) with a flow of about 19, to greatly minimize the under-eye creases--but without actually "eliminating them".

Cropping this to a tight vertical is an effort to turn an environmental, on-location shot into something it totally is NOT.

 

[harishu]

wow..another point of view...something along my line of thought.

so regarding the composition, the question ..which way should i go? or is the case of there is no right or wrong.

btw its not an airport, but a mall. i liked that car ad. the car and the missus are both beauties. even then the car comes in second place.

My main issue is the color of her face and the back of her hand has a big disparity. He face appears far to yellowish to me, no matter what color of foundation and powder she's using. I see no problems with the large handbag/carryon, especially since it's obviously an airport shot. This shot has a "context" to it when seen as originally shown....upstairs, airport concourse, luggage trolly handle right by her, a big Mercedes advertisement on a backlighted billboard, woman dressed in red with a large handbag...so she can use it as one of her "carry-on" items...it's also a nice bag too, which conveys status and wealth. It has a spontaneous, sort of grabbed-brief-second-of-real-life ethos to it.

Besides correcting the too-yellow face, I would also very subtly take the clone tool and using a soft-edged, 30-35 pixel oval brush shape, "paint out" the under-eye creases using low opacity (70%) with a flow of about 19, to greatly minimize the under-eye creases--but without actually "eliminating them".

Cropping this to a tight vertical is an effort to turn an environmental, on-location shot into something it totally is NOT.