This has an interesting handling of your elements, but your subject still bothers me as does the other two which are nudes. I love what you did with the umbrella and the light, although the model does look a little underexposed, but that could be the scan. My problem is with the model, and like the other two, it's got the subject ill defined. Is it cheesecake, is it a model shot or is it art nudes. It just feels like you haven't define your genre. I'd actually preferred this as an art nude instead of the cheesy bathing suit. Then the elements would have worked.
This has an interesting handling of your elements, but your subject still bothers me as does the other two which are nudes. I love what you did with the umbrella and the light, although the model does look a little underexposed, but that could be the scan. My problem is with the model, and like the other two, it's got the subject ill defined. Is it cheesecake, is it a model shot or is it art nudes. It just feels like you haven't define your genre. I'd actually preferred this as an art nude instead of the cheesy bathing suit. Then the elements would have worked.
I appreciate you taking the time to critique my work. It's certainly healthy for an artist. With respect to the exposure I'm lucky the negative tuned out at all, according to the meter my max 1/1000 sec shutter speed was way short. I only had a yellow filter with me at the time, so I took the shot and under developed a bit and somehow got a decent negative. By the way I always shoot the aero ektar wide open. As for nudity it wasn't an option at the time. As for genre I disagree with you I don't feel that my work or anyone else's for that matter needs to fit neatly into a category.