Set up for company head-shoulder portraits

[trailguy]

I've taken plenty of pictures, but since this will be about 20 shoulder-head shots for employees for a company to put in a paper, I'm a little nervous about getting them right.

I'm going to use a Canon 70 - 200, at an 85 t0 100mm area.
About speed lights: I'm thinking to put one light about 45degrees to subjects faces at normal power, and one on camera set to a low power for a slight fill on the other side of faces. I will have a black no-reflection sheet behind them.
I'm open to any advice here.

Thanks

 

[gsgary]

One light at 45 either side depending on whether you are short or broad lighting reflector opposite and the other light behind as a hair light for separation from the background

This shot was taken that way at a dog shop i was shooting

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[tirediron]

You don't mention modifiers; do you have something like a pop-up softbox that you can use? Otherwise you're going to be dealing some potentially annoying shadows and difficult shadows. My usual set-up for this sort of shot is a speedlight in a 30" Lastolite Ezybox 30 degrees camera right (or left) and a reflector in close opposite. The speedlight is usually about 3' from the subject, and with my SB800 (GN 125), I'm firing 1/16+1/3 at f5.6-8 and ISO 100. This produces and image like the one below. Using the on-camera flash, even as fill is going to cause unattractive 'center of the eye' catchlights.