Portrait for critique

It was not a comment on you as an individual Vidau - It was a comment on the look of the photograph. It is a bizarre (seemingly meaningless) combination of crude, ill-matched techniques. A candid with direct flash combined with a blackened-out background is something a newcomer to photography in the full-throws of early experimentation might be prone to do. It is not something I would expect to see from a photographer with more than a few thousand frames under their belt - Hence the comment
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Simon
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