OK, neither of them. ;) The white one is poor because all you see is the bright white dress and hair. If men notice the dress and not the woman you usually need to change clothes, and I'm not even a man! You are also using BLACK as your ambiant color. Why???? She is not standing in a corridor of a dungeon game, she is standing outside in a garden. Ambiant color is what is around a person, in her case I might choose a bluish green at about 15% for the ambiant on dress and hair (shadows would capture a bit of the purplish blue from the sky dome, and there is a lot of green nearby) and a mauvish or chocolate ambiant for her skin. If you want to use the white image, I'd suggest lightening the background a lot and muting/blurring it so that the sharpest contrast is the design above her eyes... which ought to call attention to them. You may also need to tone down the dress a bit. The lighting in the pink image is better because it is on her face and pulls up the facial design. However, it isn't strong enough, and her skin is therefore too dark. You hardly see those lovely eyes. In this case, I'd darken/blur the background, especially the white flowers, and brighten her so that she stands forward of the flowers. The problem here is that she is lit from very low and everything else is lit from above, so merging her into the background will be trickier. With warmer light and surroundings, the ambiant color will be warmer, too... but it will be a color. HTH, Carolly