Back in 2008. I captured this on a rare opportunity when my friend 
Hive account@tatdt invited me to her photoclasses' studio with professional lighting setup. We spent there two hours and that was fun. Sadly, I have no proper friends and acquaintances to repeat this one more time. Probably now I would apply my efforts on a better level than that.
taken with Canon 400D + 50mm 1.4, studio lighting
location: St.Petersburg, Russia
tags: portraitcontest portrait art ru lowkey talentclub
No editing and raw conversion except crop and downscale.
“Portrait — unlike a snapshot — is an artistic representation of a person (as the said contest always states in its guide) in which the face and its expression is predominant (my highlighting here). The intent in to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person...”
