Here's #2 and #3 for the little image set i'm using for practise:
Like how the close shot worked out, good advice on here about tilting her head into the sun a little, similarly when the camera passes 90 degrees from the direction of light it gives a totally different effect if she is facing away from the light, didn't expect it to be so big of a deal but it really shades her face more than i expected it to with with a softer light.
Also was considering trying DOF for the longer shot but couldn't decide on the focus and just hit render without it, maybe i'll come back and do that later.
Pretty sure that when i have the last three done that i'll postwork them and caption them, see how it goes.