Natural light portrait

[Stravinsky]

I never take pictures of people, in fact I go out of my way to not have people in my shots .... but I was kind of forced into this when a model turned up to a local photo walk - I'll try anything once.

Trying to take with natural light from the window on the right 

[johntwo]

This is a nice portrait but the total loss of detail on her RHS bothers me particularly since it results in the disembodied hand.  Is there any detail there?  Just a little would make a difference for me.

[Stravinsky]

Presume you mean left hand side ... I can certainly bring some detail up, I was sort of going for the dark effect  

[Clicker]

Just catching the light on the underside of that fur sleeve makes all the difference for me too Strav . A striking image ..

[FUJI]

I like it....

FUJI

[johntwo]

No , I literally meant her RHS as opposed to the RHS of the image but were talking the same place.  For me it doesn't need a lot, just something to connect that hand to.  Otherwise, it's a really classical portrait that works well for me.   ...................something like:

[Stravinsky]

1 hour ago, johntwo said:

No , I literally meant her RHS as opposed to the RHS of the image but were talking the same place.  For me it doesn't need a lot, just something to connect that hand to.  Otherwise, it's a really classical portrait that works well for me.   ...................something like:

I actually already did increase it on that second shot above ;-).  I didnt want to do it too much as I wanted the contrast of shadow and light