one word: WOW

I bow to you, 'Master of light'

absolutely wonderful composition and lighting... love it

absolutely wonderful would love to know how you did this

This is called "low key photography".
The point is to direct the light in a way that it creates lots of shadows & just some ares with light.That way you don't reveal too much of your composition,making the viewer imagine the whole scene by him self (reading/explaining the photo with his own mind / taste).
I love this kind of photography & if you google it you can find many tutorials / techniques to have such results!
For his photo i use a external flash light,a camera on a tripod & lot's of patience & clicks until i get the result i wanted.

thank you

Awesome capture - thanks for the tips

Your entries always stand out and the fact that you share your technique is extremely unselfish. Great shot. Gotta go and light my smoke.

His book should be on fire Great shot

Love, love this! Did I mention I love this??

Awesome photograph!

great photograph

Awesome entry author

Nice lighting

Awesome!!

Thanks!!! I'm rather pleased with it we did take a ton of pictures till I got one where I liked what the smoke was doing. Went through about three cigarettes in an hour (EWWW)

3 cigarettes an hour...
that's my normal average, must be the stress from modding

Great shot ! Perfect mood.

Thanks, there is nothing like one directional harsh light and a little desaturating to give a picture some powerful mood

great setup, but I find the curtains on the left distracting., makes it very hard t see what is going on.

I add the curtains so the whole set up is not completely black (to add some "hotel lounge" mood).
I thought it would add to the photo.

the table to me looks like its going to fold foward, but still very nice.

I think it's just the hightlights in the curtains that is too bright, try pulling them back a bit.

i adjust the curves a little bit so the highlights are not that bright!

great lighting

Well done author - I like the lighting , specially on the smoke

Very nice. I agree with the above, but I'd crop just a bit from the left

Looks much better. Good Luck!