This picture was lit from behind by a torch. To be extra corny I used a dictionary with the ring setup right next to the word love :). If you zoom in you will be able to see it. Due to the directional nature of the torch, there was minimum light spill. Plus I metered for the torch light which helped me throw the rest of the scene into darkness.

I have seen this kind of pic many times but I didn't know how it could be taken but it was fairly easy and after just a few tries I was able to get a successful shot. I was not paying attention to my shutter speed and I thought it would be difficult to take this shot in room light but after looking at the settings now I feel I should have used a smaller aperture and could have even dropped down the ISO a bit.

Smaller aperture would have kept the dictionary in focus more which might have been more interesting and lower ISOs would have helped with noise. You must have guessed by now that I was using aperture priority while I should have been doing manual exposure because that would have allowed me to forcefully register that my shutter speed was toooo high.

In any case, the light had to come from behind to make the heart that is why the torch is there, plus dictionary was added to make the heart stand next to the word love. I didn't do much in photoshop except to bring out the contrast and deepen the shadows a bit to make the shadow heart as well as the faint one being formed by the light stand out. No other processing was performed.

This pic also meets Requirement 1: Background and Requirement 2: Lighting