Some modern portraiture

I've now got June's Digital Photo magazine - as usual, full of lots of good stuff, including how to shoot and Photoshop RAW format black and white images.
I must get to grips with that soon! :-)

There's also a "Modern Portraiture" feature, for creating photos that companies like Venture charge you large sums for. And it's really easy to get some pretty professional looking results. So here's my go at using their techniques using some pictures I already had: