My first portrait shoots

[aerobandit]

Few weeks ago this lovely girl asked me to take her few pictures. I agreed and because I don't have any studio set-up I've used wall in our friends house as background and my 430 EXII as lighting. I've taken quite few pictures but I decided to concentrate on these two. I'm still beginner so please tell me what do you think and what could be done better. Thanks.

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[onefunkypenguin]

Both nice shots but the WB is way too warm for me. The second i think is the better of the two, rather pretty model and good eye contact.

 

[steveathome]

Nice shots of a beautiful young lady, No 1 being my favourite.

I would say a slight increase of exposure, and very slight decrease in saturation - just my opinion.

 

[Hacker]

Hi Piotr, a couple of good images there that could benefit from a little tweaking in post production. I've had a quick edit of the first and all I did was add a lighter contrast adjustment layer, then a little bit of Portaiture for some minor skin smoothing and cooled down the WB to get rid of the orange look. It's not perfect but I'm sure you get the idea!

Before & After:

 

[aerobandit]

thanks for feedback Dave, really appreciated.
Colin and Steve: thank you very much for editing. I can really see the difference! I'll remember that when post-processing other images.