Patent Leather Lover

Did I get your attention? ;) Shot with Sony F717, f/2.0 -1.50EV against seamless super white background paper with 3 500 watt photofloods. This is my wife helping me test out the new diffuser panel for my photoflood.

The top shot is the better in my opinion, although they are both pretty good. In the top image, the lighting on the left side of subjects face is a nice effect.

The first shot is very well done. Nice tonal range, interesting pose, sharp, etc. The second one is too contrived for my liking. That sort of "lost interest, dangling cigarette" look has been done to death in movies, modelling and other photographic venues. Not saying the color effects aren't interesting but the pose itself is just not original.