I would agree: the backgrounds are fairly strong, fairly intrusive. I took the one where she's in the dress by the freeway and did some crazy distortion of the image in Lightroom. Overall, most of these are dark, and back-lighted...we cannot see into the shadows enough because the lighting has very little fill light. You can lighten things up a bit in software, but it is not the same as actual, good lighting at the time of shooting.
Here is what I would think of: more model, less L.A., in most cases. The shot on the overpass (the 4th shot) would have been a nice "tall".
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Those power poles are very distracting. I cropped out the church and spire.
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I used fake distortion correction to radically change the perspective here, and I cloned out 80% of the trash on the ground and stuck in the fence...
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Noisy and back-lighted, I cropped this and softened it up with a bit of digital fill light.
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If this one had been framed as a "tall", it would have gone down to the mid-thigh level and would have been super-sexy.
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This is interesting, dappled, afternoon lighting, with delicate shadows falling over her. It's a nice type of lighting condition, but very challenging to work in. This would be a great time for the use of a very FAST-aperture lens, to really defocus the background--something like the 200mm f/2, or 85mm f/1.4 or f/1.8 models, shot at about f/2.5 or so. The 55 MPH sign hurts this shot.