Vendela

@Benjiboy: Yes it's a negative scan. I have trouble finding time in the darkroom during the summer-time. But I can assure you that what I do in Photoshop (only levels and curves) is no hard work in real life. I don't want to make a end-result and post it here or anywhere else which doesn't look like the wet-room copy I would produce.

Thanks for your warm comment about the image.

/ Marcus

Well, you used the Sinar. So we can expect technically a great image, as usual with your images.

What about the overly prominent elbow? Honestly, it disturbs me a lot and I think it is not optimal to be so present between the model and the viewer.

I hope you dont mind my nitpicking critique

I don't mind the critique at all. Due to tilt (I believe, I have never learned the difference in words between tilt and shift) I think that the lens has increased the size of the elbow and since I stood so close to Vendela, the elbow is out of focus. Naturally I could use a smaller f-stop, but I didn't. I rarely don't use different f-stops, since I'm not into the technically feature of the camera or the lens, but the subject instead (naturally one can be good at both, but I'm not interested in the technical stuff).

/ Marcus

It's a good point about the elbow. I was considering how you handled that, but as a positive. For me the picture works because both her direct gaze and posture seem natural, yet the emotion remains a bit mysterious. If the elbow were in focus I believe the texture would make it more prominent and at that point become distracting... but it is not, and the out of focus area is slight with a gradual transition to the surrounding in focus elements, which when combined with the back ground (and the incredible lighting!) provides a tremendous amount of depth and a wonderful sense of space. So whether intentional or not I think it was the best solution.

Perfection.