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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 149622" data-attributes="member: 3903">My critic is a little simplistic. When I do portrait, I try to use the portrait orientation. Portraits in landscape orientation are not so great unless you deliberately want to add an object or person that will add to the portrait.Portraits are hard to critic since there is so much open to intention and sometimes the relation between the photographer and the subject. The photographer might feel something for the subject or the moment of capture that the outsider viewer cannot feel. The light is a little flat and so is the colour treatment (IMO), choice of lens is a little on the wide side for me (the subject's nose looks disproportioned).So, if I'd go with the 12 merits scale, I'd give this picture a 9 (-1 for lens choice, -1 landscape crop, -1 post processing)</blockquote>