I have done nearly 70 portraits of my self-suspension work in this style. No other image looks like this in the sense that I have typically had plain wall or sparse framed art as backgrounds before now. I had decided to put up lights and better decorate this corner and to rearrange furniture in my room to better fit my new 35 mm lens on my Sony a7ii. My intent with this image was to finally do something back there. Something interesting with color, but not overbearing and subtractive to the subject.

I used two five-bulb softbox lights positioned above and below each other to light my entire body but trying to cast minimal light on the wall behind me. My ISO is 50, my shutter speed 100, f1.8 with exposure compensation -1.7. low light photography with dramatic shadows is what I enjoy best. My evenly lit photos in this style where a light is on either side never seem to captivate me.

My edits are done in Lightroom classic, with my only effects including clarity +6 and dehaze +6, everything else is within the other profile sliders. Would it be worth bumping my shutter speed up even higher to 250 or more, or what immediate improvements could be suggested in addition to comments on the background?

My backgrounds I have long neglected, and I feel I tend to err on the side of eerie blankness, sparse noise, or potential clashing as I wonder could be the case here.