>>2829513Hey anon, I'm the poster above you with the black borders...your pictures are very weak, but not for the reason you may think. Though some of the other posters are bringing up good points, those aren't exactly what you should be focusing on. For example, you are using a MKII with a great 50mm 1.4 lens - basically the same set up as mine, if you boosted that ISO for that one shot or did not crop out her fingers it wouldn't of made the image look much better...you are too wrapped up with all those technical minorities you forget you're shooting a person. By that I mean try to capture real motions, movements and expression. A good portrait requires connection between the subject and the photographer and I'm not seeing any of that. Photograph them running, out of breath, looking out a window, reading, basically anything but just "posing" them pretty and looking directly at the camera
