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I know I'd be delighted with a result like this.
Excellent work, and certainly fits the brief you were given, in the circumstances.
It might have been better to have a small space between the Guiness sign and her head, and as mentioned above, the sign is somewhat too strong (although you could always pitch this to Guiness too for their own use ! )
Also, if you could remove that wall-join to give a cleaner background, that might improve things.
Nevertheless, this is really a great shot, and I'd love to see what else you came up with from the shoot.
Excellent work, and certainly fits the brief you were given, in the circumstances.
It might have been better to have a small space between the Guiness sign and her head, and as mentioned above, the sign is somewhat too strong (although you could always pitch this to Guiness too for their own use ! )
Also, if you could remove that wall-join to give a cleaner background, that might improve things.
Nevertheless, this is really a great shot, and I'd love to see what else you came up with from the shoot.
Can't say there is much wrong with this to be honest. Light is good, pose is lovely, composition works, lovely tones in mono, well exposed.......nah, nowt at all. I would have been over the moon with this, so be pleased! 
Lovely, lovely shot
Lovely, lovely shot
I agree with Barry about the closeness of the Guinness frame I was going to suggest you cheat and move it using the clone tool, but that would have meant cropping the frame, so I didn't say anything. I've since seen the shot you've uploaded to the "tell it as is" group I don't think the cropped frame hurts, so yes, move the frame to the right
Incidentally you've done a grand job of the black and white processing...even more apparent on the tell it as is shot .
Incidentally you've done a grand job of the black and white processing...even more apparent on the tell it as is shot .
Wow thanks Pete! Well chuffed. And thanks for taking the time to comment. Steve asked on the other shot about the b&w processing - I used to use the gradient map tool (and still do sometimes), but I bought the Nik Software suite a couple of months ago, and this is Silver EFX's emulation of the b&w film TMAX Pro, but I customised it with no grain at all. It seems to give just the right amount of contrast while keeping the blacks rich and the highlights unclipped.
Thanks,
Geraint
Thanks,
Geraint
