Informal (C&C Please)

[michael9000000]

It's the way the shadows fall on her face and the hard light to her right and the lack of light to her left. I'm not sure there's really anything you can do about it since you're shooting at dinner and the lights in the restaurant were probably far too dim, but just out of curiosity, were you using a light diffuser of any sort? Like a gary fong dome type of thing? This honestly is for my own learning, so pardon me for leeching off your post haha.

I didn't use any artificial light or modifiers at all. We were actually outside on a covered patio. Perhaps the hard and soft light you're seeing may just be our position on the patio in relation to the restaurant and the building next door? The catchlights in her eyes were a result of me turning her toward the open sunlight past the edge of the patio. It was near the evening golden hour, so the sky was nice and soft anyway.