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Garth,
I also tend to like the first version more, for the same reason that Mike states and I would say that the dimmer background gives the whole painting more depth and since you are thinking of painting the room as a background and not just a neutral backdrop, your main concern (after the figure, of course) would be achieving the illusion of space behind the figure. In the second photo, the elements in the background seem too defined since more light was given to them, and although it still seems very obvious there is distance between the figure and those elements, in comparison to the first photo it doesn
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