On the day of the lighting test, the wireless trigger wasn't working, so I used a speedlight instead of a strobe. On the day of the actual shoot, I tried first with the strobe. But it turned out to be way too strong given the available light. So I went back to the speedlight, which worked well.
The available light was enough to be the main light. The speedlight was used exclusively to create the highlight on the face.
Following Val's comments, I used a longer lens to get a shallower depth of field. The final settings were ISO 250, 1/125th second, f / 6.3.
For the shoot, I used a reflector to punch some light into the upper body, but it wasn't really necessary. I ended up dropping the exposure around the face in lightroom anyways.
I think I caught the mood of the shot. I could have shot a little faster and dropped the f-stop to 5.6 to have a slightly more shallow depth of field. The real challenge in the shot was reproducing the light on the face. It was a question of finding the right positioning of the speedlight and zooming it in to it's most focussed range. All in all, happy with the shot.
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