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Originally Posted by maze
This had the potential to be a great shot but something seems off about her expression
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I think it's her breath.
When modeling you can inhale, exhale, hold your breath and gasp to help change your expression, especially the subtle expression of your body. It can give a pose real life, energy and movement.
It looks like she is holding the pose, and breathing normally while expressing something that would naturally occur with an exhale. So there is a flatness to it. It could be her just holding that exact pose for a little while to long (say, while on the downfall of a jump to get that wicked hair), or a vigorous headflick (to get that hair movement) where the camera/photographer caught her just too late during her exhale.
Either way, she has no breath movement, and it makes her whole body expression appear somewhat flat or lifeless.