I like the low key Norwegian lady, her vision provide a.....

a guide line of potential interests to viewers. Back lit also hides front interference. 

If you used "the rule of a third" of your composition instead of putting your subject at center it could be a very nice photography work. 16:9 frame ratio, not much leverage to crop.

The tiger statue is a good example of wide angle lens impact. With wide angle deformation, the body  to tail reduced sharply, head is emphasized, adding punch to the expression. A 50mm standard lens won't have such impact but a proper scaled image.

painting is addition, you add to a blank. photography is subtraction, exclude unwanted. Like article, a photo should have a subject, one interest center , not two. Or just like anyone else's photo.

I ran out my inspiration, found my last time touching camera was Jan