wow great post, I loved how you show your reference material and it turned out great. My only critique will be the blurring and softening. Blurred backgrounds are one thing, but blurring something that close to the foreground is going to give the image an optical illusion called Tilt-Shift Blurring. The only way optics will allow her legs to be that blurry is if she is a miniature and we are taking the photo through a macro lens. Great image, but the blurring is too much.