Now to the picture!
This, my friend, Nigel is where my well-intentioned, (but surely rather naive), honesty, risks being taken as “uncourteous” in polite society. I will put aside all caution and trust you recognize my sincerity to help Isabella succeed in her creative enterprise. So here goes!
Progress: yes your technique is better and there’s more of a sense of pro shoot.
View: this scene is not wide enough to be grand! For Magazine work, I would start with destination atmospherics shot to “establish” the romantic buzzing/secluded location!
Lighting: shooting in the presence of bright sunlight we’d have giant lighting, (for ample 72” to 84” octadome or largest Mola that overwhelms the sun, so that there would be no solar white-out of the edges of her skin and hair backlit by the harsh sunlight!
A high overhead filtering, wide sun-screening shade would work too with angled reflectors hand-half by several assistants in front of her to balance the light.
Many prefer to arrange these important commercial shots early or late in the day to get richer sky colors. However, at midday a portable strobe system capable of at least 200 Watt-seconds, (Joules), is needed to best the sun at its peak.
Makeup: Only in art shoots of routine portfolio building and experimentation does the model do her own makeup!! I almost never pay the model, but always the makeup artist and hair stylists. These are the most important folk in the shoot!
Edited work shouldn't ever be discernible...
.... except to experienced photographers and artists who are technically as adept themselves.
I assure you that neither Maris Rusis from Australia, (an expert analog film photographer), nor Nicolas Claris, (a founder of OPF and both artistic master and post-processing technical perfectionist), would be fooled for a split second!
But for everyone else, the skin lighting, color, smoothness, texture or lack of it, shouldn’t call attention as either being “flawless” or else having been cleverly or otherwise corrected in some way!
If, in another life, you had an unlimited budget and could gain access to Annie Leibovitz’ retoucher, (for $2500 or more), you’d bring a waterfall of tears to Isabella’s eyes and you would simply faint!
But your picture, as it is, (given to a retouch from India, Bangladesh or Russia for even just $30), would be fine for print ads.
You can pat yourself on the back for this great picture and a job well done: the basic elements and needs of the picture are all already there. Just about $80 To $240 at the most towards retouching from India would deliver for Isabella a fine ready for print campaign image to sell the suits!
Asher