Yes or No

No. Not on a white background.

No, plus the skin is blotchy, as John said, you need mood lighting, romantic.

Yeah, it's harsh, that's why I wanted everyone's opinion, I couldn't decide.

Marian, I do like your crop better.  Without the crazy treatment you see she is sitting on a bed and there are pillows in the background, and so the missing fingers and the wrinkled part under her leg make sense.

Mike, you are really into the noir thing lately.

I think this effect would look better with a low key picture.

I got some shadowy black and white pictures of her with my big mirror in her little black dress.  I love how they turned out.  Very sultry.

She was a client that signed a model release for me.  I tell ya, I get to shoot some amazingly pretty women that aren't professional models.  I love this gig.

It's interesting when you push an image really far,  you notice things you didn't before like the creases around her waist and the shape of her nose.

Historically I have not been a fan of pushing an image to the point where it no longer looks like a photograph, whether it's the comic book look, or making it look like a painting.

With that being said, I don't like this edit, but it's just my taste and what I lean toward, other people will like it.

lol, I should have posted the original.  Everyone has such different ideas, it's kinda fun.