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I started here with one version of observations, then moved my laptop a bit and found that some of the points about the value design were mooted by seeing the image from a slightly different monitor angle. But there are still a few areas to which attention might be brought to bear, if not in revision of this piece, then in planning the next.
The very busy foliage background sets up a lot of competition for your subject, who is youthful and delicate and simple in presentation, and this tends to deflect attention away from the portrait subject. More problematic is that every value in the scale is represented somewhere in the background, so that it doesn
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