My lighting experimentation- any constructive criticism is appreciated--- especially about getting those wrinkles out of the vertical part of the muslin
Hmmm... falls just short of a silhouette, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing; I rather like this image. The best way to deal with the background will be to get the model further from it and use a larger aperture and/or longer glass to reduce the DoF. If you could have got her another 2-3 from the background, and gone with say an 80-100mm focal length at f2ish, it would have been a non-issue. As it is, I think it can easily be fixed in post.