"A picture of me smoking a cigarette" or "A picture of me, smoking a cigarette"?

[Cherize]

Hello, helpers. Which do you prefer? More important, is one of these wrong?

1. "That's a picture of me smoking a cigarette."
2. "That's a picture of me, smoking a cigarette."

I can't figure out the rule, and I'd like to know the name of that structure; something like subject + gerund-as-modifier.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello. helpers. Which do you prefer? More importantly, is one of these wrong?

1. "That's a picture of me smoking a cigarette."
2. "That's a picture of me, smoking a cigarette."

I can't figure out the rule, and I'd like to know the name of that structure; something like subject + gerund-as-modifier.

They're both grammatically correct. The first treats "me smoking a cigarette" as the subject matter of the photo. The second is more like a shortened form of "That's a picture of me, and in that photo I'm smoking a cigarette". There would be a pretty clear pause after "me" in the spoken version of the second.
I'll leave it to a grammarian to explain the structure.

 

[Cherize]

1. Thank you.
2. I stand by "more important."

 

[emsr2d2]

I stand by "more important."

And so you should. I apologise. I've had a dig around and discovered that in the several decades since my English language teacher and I shared a classroom space, opening with "Most important" and with "Most importantly" have become interchangeable and both grammatically correct. Live and learn!