I have done a lot of practicing with family and friends and I finally had the guts to do a photo shoot for a little girl while her parents watched. I was nervous but I think they came out good. This is my favorite one

[NicK10D]

Here's another

[RBellavance]

These are a pretty good shots, congrats.

However, the first one is underexposed (nothing a quick tweak with curves won't fix). Also, she is dead center in the image, which makes it a bit "static" in my eyes. Finally, there is a lot of empty space above her head; I think it would work better if it was framed closer to her, with the top of her head closer to the top of the image.

I really like the light in the 2nd one, but again she is too centered in the image, at least vertically, IMHO, with again too much empty space above her head.

[NicK10D]

Yeah, your right. Thanks for the advice. My uncle brought his digital lenses with him so I used them for the first time ..kinda of threw me off. I am used to using my poor mans film lenses.

[SpecialK]

As pointed out, they all suffer from "head in the middle" syndrome, which I am confident you will avoid in the futuire as a matter of course (unless you really want it there :-)

The last one has a bit flat lighting.

Just another tip, have the subject just put one hand around the other rather than interlacing fingers - that way they don't squeeze them together and make them look stubby.

[Ben_Edict]

Apart from what the previous posters rightly wrote: you can still simply crop off empty space and thus offset your cute modell from the center - provided you used a camera with some megapixels to spare.

Ben