Sorrow (Day 15)

Sorrow (Day 15), originally uploaded by Tj6106.
So tonight I wanted to put in a little but extra work and try and learn a bit after my quick shot last night.

So I setup a black seamless background, which I acquired from Kelly's Gran, who is a dress maker. I put this up over our clothes horse and ran it along the ground for the black backdrop.

Next I setup my shoot-through umbrella and took a few test shots. Here I noticed that my head was disappearing into the darkness and so I knew I needed to add a hair light for some definition. I did this by adding a light diagonally opposite the shoot-through.

Now if I had my pick of equipment I would change the way I lit this shot. Firstly I would add two hair lights either side for definition on both sides of my head. Next I would probably move the shoot-through more centrally and change it for a softbox.

As always comments/suggestions/critique welcomed.

Strobist info here.