>>3796475The lower half of this one works really well--the snow matching her dress, the tree color matching her hair color, and the low angle making her body and the trees both ascend to the top of the frame together all work really well. I would, again, prefer some eye contact, but it doesn't hurt this shot that much.
The top one, on the other hand, has way too much of your model's face hiding behind her arm and that just kills it for me. I don't think they really work together that well as a diptych either--obviously they're from the same shoot, but I don't see any sort of thematic/visual connection between those two shots that makes them work particularly well as a pair besides that.
>>3796476Much better, but my advice to the steak-house-candid guy re: hair applies here, too. In this case, the hair on camera-right blocking half of her neck makes my brain see her neck as really thin and really long, so she has a bit of a cryptid Long Neck Woman Of The Snows look about her. Also, she looks freezing, which... okay, yeah, not sure how you could get around that necessarily, but maybe have her unclench a bit.
>>3796479If the hand is the compositional focus, I would prefer it to be the optical focus as well. Otherwise it's not "Here's a picture of a woman reaching out to you" but "Here's a picture of the shoulder of a woman reaching out to you".
>>3796839On my screen, this looks a bit too saturated, to the point that her face is almost orange.
(Side note, I was about to take a screenshot to show what I meant before I realized that that would be dumb as hell)
Other than that, I absolutely love it. The super shallow DoF works with the snowy winter landscape to give it a sort of magical feel and the facial expression looks nice and genuine. One of my favorites in the thread, so I'm annoyed it didn't get any comments.
