A New Quarter and a New Assignment

With a new quarter comes a new project.  This quarter, my assignment is to find a professional portrait and reproduce it.  This will be an ongoing project for the quarter. 

This is the professional portrait that I am working on reproducing.

The following photo is the  best one that I have created in response to this photo.

Improvements I need to make are
1. Positioning of the model
2. Composition of the photo
3. Lighting her face more

For the next shoot, I will need to light her face more as well as reposition her.  Following are some other examples of what I have shot.