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The first shot is uplighting as discussed. Remember that the angle of your subject's head effectively raises or lowers light sources.
The second shot is actually pretty textbook loop lighting with an extremely conventional 3:1ish light ratio. However, Bryan noted that the shot seems to be flat, and he's not wrong. There are few circumstances in life where we exist in a uniformly dark environment, but still have soft lighting with light shadows on our faces. If you took this subject with identical lighting and put her on a mid-to-light background, the lighting would look perfect. But because you put her on a dark background, the lighting looks flat.
As a general guideline (I hate rules), if you're doing low key work it will look most natural combined with higher ratio lighting (darker shadows). If you're doing high key work, it generally works better with lower ratio lighting, unless you have a very good reason to deviate from that.
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