2 light practice - comments?

[pharmakon]

Just a littel practice with some stand in props I found around the house.

Comments on the lighting and anything that Might help me improve the technique would be appreciated.

All shots used a flash shot through a 36" umbrella partially covered at 1/16 power camera left at ~45 degrees to subject (bottom half covered to limit spill onto the sheet I was using as a backdrop)

Second light was at 1/32 power camera right and varied between a 45 degree angle for front shots, and directly across from the other light for overhead shots.

What I have so far that sticks right out is that Mickey could have used a hair light to seperate the black ears from the background... anything else?


Web-8297-2 by PharmakonPhoto, on Flickr


Web-8296-2 by PharmakonPhoto, on Flickr


Web-8295-2 by PharmakonPhoto, on Flickr


Web-8274-2 by PharmakonPhoto, on Flickr


Web-8258-2 by PharmakonPhoto, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pharmakon/5428477090/
Thanks for looking!!!

Edit: Had to update the pics... they all looked underexposed on my PC, but the blacks looked grey on my laptop after posting... I ended up taking almost all of them back to original exposure values in lightroom. Just a little WB tweak now.

 

[pharmakon]

Me thinks I need to revisit my monitor settings... just opened up the post on my laptop and all of my nice blacks look grey Might have to make some edits here...