cgardner
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These are very nice one light shots. Learning to use one light off camera is great for discovering where to put a key light to create various highlight patterns, but much of the mood and message of a photo is a factor of controlling the shadows which is a matter of controlling how the shadows are filled.
For example you might want to take note of the difference in the shadows of the two shots resulting from the difference in reflectance of the off the light and dark shirts the guys were wearing. The fill in the shadows of the key light created by the white shirt in the first shot opens up the shadows enough to overcome the short range of the camera and reveal some detail, giving it more interest for me than #2 where all the shadow detail is lost.
Outdoors the open sky normally provides a good amount of fill, but when the background is darkened more than normal as in these shots it will also cut down the amount of fill the sky is providing. If you also had a fill source on the camera it can be added, or not as the situation dictates to control the shadow detail and mood, giving #2 the same level of shadow detail, more or less, with complete control rather than letting the shadows fall wherever the ambient light level and camera sensor range put them.
Chuck
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but very nice.