Playing with lighting - portrait for CC

[enzodm]

Today I finally tested together some totally unprofessional lighting tools I have (two flashes, umbrella, reflector, two recently bought stands). Main aim was playing with hair light.
This is the result I like more.
Things I like less:

• background is slightly uneven - it was just an open door on a dark room, but at the end of the room a window perhaps reflected part of light.
• hair light too strong. I used an old Miranda flash driven by an optical trigger, no control on power. I attenuated it with paper towel, but I could have used more.

I did not redo because my wife' patience is limited .

 

[Derrel]

Pretty decent overall in B&W. Her shoulders are a bit square to the camera, and I wish her chin had been lifted a bit higher. Lighting is "not bad".

 

[Postman158]

It looks like you got what you were practicing for. Nice job. The piece of hair in her right eye kinda bothers me though.

 

[enzodm]

Thank you both. We always start with her posing, but results too "rigid". When we play and laugh a bit, she moves, and I like results more, but there is always some imperfection - square shoulder, hair... although her hair are more or less this way, except just after a visit to the hairdresser