Cropped and cracked, what a lovely portrait, well seen and taken.
Nigel

Certainly looks as if you are getting there, and that conversion is really nice. You have to love the out of focus areas with this lens.
Have you searched for earlier threads on flash boxes or tubes. You can make one quite easily and quickly...

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Just helps to focus the light and freeze the movement when handheld, plus smaller aperture for greater dof.

Re the eyes, I'm not sure, this is the closest I have managed with the 90mm


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Nigel

Hi chap, the first is close, and I like the comp. in the second but focus is off. Are you using flash or extra lighting?
I had help and advice here re lighting and aperture, but it's still slow progress.
Nigel

The first one is a lovely image, and the most natural.
Nigel

Have to agree re cropping no.3 it makes a very strong image that I like a lot. The final one is very simple and the colours are very pleasing.
Nigel

I like the set and thanks for sharing, the one that stands out for me is no.4, with its strong lines and the path in the foreground leading me in.
Nigel

It sure is a journey, and you seem to be well on the road. For me you have realised that there is a picture to be had, and are dipping a toe into the dark art of pp, it is then great to bring them to a forum to help develop the pictures that are hidden in the haze of our imaginations. {sounds to deep, but you follow I think}
This is a great place for help and advice, and it is offered by many in a really good way.
Nigel

Hi John,
You have posed a tricky one here. I have viewed it several times but found it hard to comment.
This seems to be a wonderful and attractive location,a strong structure, but with tricky exposure issues. I can see why you have photographed it, but the results are probably as I would have come away with. I would then have had to crop heavily to create an acceptable image, but been still left feeling,as I often am, as though I had missed something.
So, in short I cannot help, but read the thread with interest, as I walk in your shoes...
That said, I do like the last one ,which does draw me to the pillars, and good in b&w.
Nigel

What a lovely set, and no.2 for me, really like the subdued colours...but the last one is a cracker too!
Posts like this are making it hard to justify paying the extra for the Tamron 70-200 2.8 over this 55-300, that is when i finally bite the bullet and buy something longer than my 90mm.
Nigel

Thank you, yes it is quite difficult to isolate a whole car, so have many detail shots to go through. Tried rotating and cropping, but couldn't quite make it work with the confines of the original image.