Comments Received by dierk

thanks for your comments, very much appreciated.
with the 12mm and pointing down that much you have to keep your feet out of the picture :)

thanks very much for your comments!
I use the 18mm finder and have to guess the rest - and try again, if it is not ok. :))
For the sky I use the red filter emulation in Nik Silver Efex and some other tools and UPoints

thanks very much for all your encouraging comments!

thanks very much JT

@jalle,
thanks,
For PP I use almost always Lightroom 3.
The B&W image stays internally in color and you can tune for example the blue from the sky down to get a black sky or in this picture tune down the skin colors to make the skin lighter
hope that helps :)

Very nice!

One of the best portraits I have seen.

fantastic. simply wonderful.

Pretty cute portrait; the light background works well.