Portrait Practice!

For today's "assignment" for my photography class, we had to take portraits of people. Our teacher, Derek said the hardest part will probably be to find a subject and convincing them to allow you to shoot them. He also said as photographers, we'd have to get comfortable with talking to our subject and trying to make them comfortable. I'm very awkward when meeting new people, so I opted by shooting my friend and classmate, Amanda! Isn't she pretty? Look at those eyes! I really love this picture, but I'm not going to lie, it took me many attempts and failed shots to get this. It was hard, but not too hard. Practice makes perfect right? The main thing that was hard to remember was to adjust the ISO according to the environment. All is well though, according to this decent shot. What do you guys think? (づ｡◕‿◕｡)づ❁