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First of all, lovely shot, very much my style, I used to do loads of low-key monolight work, not so much this last couple of years but it's a style I really love, and this is a good effort..

Now for critique, I need to find stuff wrong with it...

The first thing I'd address is the eyes, or her right eye specifically, it would really pop with a catchlight in it, there is one there, just, but with her head back like that and the light source around waist height there isn't much light in the eye, photo's of people look more alive with a catchlight. You could fake it with a little spray of white in photoshop.

You did well bringing up the tattoo on her torso but it's looking a little artificial, at least to my eye, a fill-light from the right would have negated this need but that would have also lit the right side of her arm, leg, bum, & hair, which would make it a different picture.

Framing was good, the narrowest point where the legs cross is usually the best place to crop the composition if you want 3/4 instead of full length.

Exposure was good, don't see any hotspots.

Looks like an undiffused light source, or a small light source, a bigger / closer light source is usually more flattering, especially to facial features.

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