, The composition, exposure and sitters expression are excellent, in my opinion, if this shot was mine I would think to myself the picture could be improved by having a smaller lens aperture to give a little more D.O.F so that both the sitters shoulders and arms are sharp, but overall it's a very competent portrait .
Thank you for all the positive feedback. Regarding the DOF, I shot wide open, f 5.6, to keep the exposure from getting too long. I don't recall the exact exposure, but I was shooting Ttri-X at 200 EI, and with a 12 inch lens and at that focal distance there was definitely some BEF, and reciprocity failure compensation, so I'm remembering exposures of about 5- 8 seconds in that light. Long enough. Personally, I had done very little large format portraiture prior to this and my style in the studio was Hasselblad, stopped down, electronic flash. This seemed like an interesting change. My old 8 x 10 Kodak D something or other, did not have swing movements. A forward swing on the left side would have brought that shoulder a bit more into focus.