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Silent-ShooterComment by FrankRobinson: My first critique - so go easy on me!
My overall view is that this is a very strong portrait, which rightly did very well, hence the very justified high final score. Anything critical I have to say is, therefore, going to be strictly nitpicking, but here goes:
Technically: This should have a decent DOF with f6.4 at 50mm at this sort of range, but it looks remarkably shallow - her hair is perfectly focussed but the eyes seem just a tiny touch soft. If the hair wasn't perfect, I would think that this might be the result of re-sizing - you don't mention sharpening after resize, which I always find worthwhile as the sizing process plays hell with sharpness. The lighting is perfect with beautiful catchlights.
Artistically: I really like the framing of the face with the veil, particularly for the high key challenge it works really well. You clearly chose to stick with the 3rds convention and that it effective to. It wouldn't be fair of me not to finally give props to your model, who has given you a fantastic expression to capture here.
An excellent job, resulting in a pretty decent score.
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