Sometimes being bored isn't too bad, hm? Makes you arrange things for some photography you would otherwise never do (see my threads on "First time - "studio" - "model" - "studio lights" Parts 1 - 3 here in General).
In the first, I would have loved to see all of the cigar in focus. I find DOF a bit too shallow there.
What was your light source?
You only had ONE, I gather?