[Tom Edgerton]

Mike,

Good likeness. I'd maybe think about darkening the background more like the reference. What swings about the photo, to me, is the light on the face and hands emerging from the (relatively) uniform tone of the overall. That drama of light gets lost with a lighter background. Also, since the eye goes first to the place of greatest contrast, my eye gets more involved with the contrast between the background and the blouse than with the face. Darkening the backgound would bring me up to her face, where you want me to look first.