Exellent job with shadows and lighting. Attractive subject. Very nice skin tone, and seemingly perfect focus. The only complaint I have is that the face seems mishaped due to the hair and shoulder shadows covering it. Great job one of my top 10 picks.
Nice contrast ratio. Framing is a debate on this image, looks that if she was more right the image would gain intensity with the grays meeting. If she was a little more right there would be more mystery. My only dislike is the light falling on her mid back, a french flag is a useful too to control light.
This image fascinates me. A first sight I'd say "too much contrast or insufficient light balance." But the softness of the shadow lines and the way it accentuates the back curvature is jsut awesome use of lighting and/or post editing.
That conflict and feelings of needing to look further than first glance make this a delighfully interactive work for me. 8.
I also thought black and white was a good reserve for capturing the beauty, and elegance of a woman. I got to tell you, I like the way you captured it. Simply a beautiful picture. You got a ten in my book, nice job.
Very good artistic use of lighting, excellent take on the challenge. I expect this one to score highly (as well as have 50 1's, 2's or 3's). The only thing I think to make this picture better would be to have her turn her hand so her fingers aren't illuminated. But still, a superb photo.