Very nice.... and we all thought that once you had chicken pox you were done with it.... DUH... we just don't know for sure..
Lighting is good but pulling her left shoulder so that's shes more of a 45 degree angle to the camera would improve the pose.
shingles are 10 times worse than the pox get the shot if you can...
I have many of her with 45* to the camera E, I just like this one looking over her shoulder of this one.
I'm not a portrait shooter, so I'll defer to E on the posing suggestions. As for this shot, I like the over the shoulder look. What I don't like is her chest, or rather the fact it seems like she's trying to accentuate it.
Shoulders back, the angle she's at, the belt seems to be up a bit high, and they all seem to working to accentuate her chest. Of course, if that's the look you're after, it's fine. But it seems a bit forced, rather than relaxed and natural.
If you go in tight and crop out the shoulder, I like the first shot a lot. I also like the second one a lot, and think you've really captured the eyes quite nicely, which is very important.
One of the only things I do know about portraits is that the eyes matter, and a nice "catch light" in the eye makes a big difference. You've done that well in both shots.
Welcome back. Lovely shot of a lovely model. Yikes, hmm, I better think about getting that shot.
Thanks Janice, she is a tad short for a professional model, right at 5'0" tall. The shingles affected my sight for nearly 3 months. just now getting to where I feel comfortable working on pics again
Well, I've just never been a fan of the shoulder in the lens pose.
Now then the hard core rules followers would tell you that you need to have white on both sides of the eye. In the first one I feel (my opinion) is that her eyes are also jammed too fare to the side. But on the plus side you avoided any unsightly creases of skin in the neck.
Now then I think the eyes work on the second shot. As I ask myself why the only difference I can see in the two shots to make it work for one and not the other is the camera angle. The higher angle of the second shot makes the shot work.
There is some PS tricks that would make those big browns really pop.