Opinion on the shoots?

After doing my first shoot and it turning out really well, however the lighting I used was very harsh on his face and created dark shadows. I wasn't too happy with this but it is an improvement step and I can work on this throughout my upcoming shoots. I thought I should add a little bit extra into my photography to make the photographs look a more interesting. I thought playing around with the shutter speed would do this and add that little bit more excitement into my photographs. I gave this a try and it did work really well. I used a longer shutter speed so that you could see the movement in the guitar players’ hands and it just brought a little more atmosphere to the photograph so that it was more interesting for the person viewing the photos. I wanted to try it out so that I have different techniques within my photography and I could look back on both of the shoots and decide which I like better. If I’m honest though, I like both shoots the same. However in the second shoot my lighting did improve as I used natural lighting and not the flash from my camera. However I wanted the photographs to be natural and there wasn’t very much natural light coming through the window to the side of him so this didn’t work out as well as I was hoping for; I have time to correct this in upcoming shoots, however. The only real problem with the second shoot is that I didn’t really think about the background and you could get distracted away from the photos quite easily. If I re-take this photo shoot in the future, however, I will make sure this is sorted and work on my faults.