*Note: The diagram for this post pertains to both shots, however in the second shot, there wasn't a light on the background.
So for these two shots, I was going for an all around well lit beauty shot. Traditionally you would probably want to use a beauty dish, but I opted to try what is known as clam shell lighting. For this type of lighting you normally would need two soft boxes of the same size, however I didn't have two of the same size, so I used one large and one medium. The larger softbox was positioned in front of and above the model angled down. The medium softbox was positioned in front of and below the model angled up. I was, of course, sure to leave a large enough gap between the boxes to shoot through.
For the first image below, I wanted the image to look very clean, so I wanted the background to be a solid white. A strobe with a 7.5" reflector was positioned off set pointed toward the background to blow the background out to white. A large black card was placed between the model and the strobe to keep the blowout from the strobe casting onto her right side, thus keeping the lighting on her even.
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The only real drawback that I see to this lighting is that it doesn't leave the most appealing catchlight in the subjects eyes. That's where a ring flash or beauty dish would help. I'll post examples of shots with those kind of lights in the future.
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