Well, if you can read spanish:

http://pacorosso.fotopopular.com/apuntes/af2_iluminacionderetratoenestudio.pdf

Keith Tapscott a couché sur son écran :

You have more than enough lights to do what you want to do.  The simplest
lighting most times is the best.

Go to the bookstore and buy a book or books on glamour and/or theatrical
-- NOT "classic" -- portrait lighting techniques. Study it or them
thoroughly, then go to the library, the photo-section, and check out
all the "picture" books by famous portratists like Karsh, Hurrell, etc.,
who did all their work in the b&w in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Study the
lighting and figure out how they lit each shot.  Duplicate or adapt it.

Stefan

I have an overwhelming need to share this with you all. Its about what
I hate most about newsgroups . . . . control freaks like netnannies
and net cops and here is why.

They are  like when a little bit of shite gets stuck just inside yer
rectum not far enough down that you can squeeze it either in or out.
It just lies there, you feel it but can do nought about it. It just
sits there and irritates the hell out of you. The only effect is the
production of irritation nothing else. That is really what they are
like. They achieve nothing else. The trolls are still there!!

Shite in yer rectum will eventually be resolved. Netnannies and
netcops are always there. The name and individual may change but there
is always some sh.t baiting and upsetting harmless trolls. The effect
is to give the troll a mission in life. Look at the uk.local hierarchy
at the moment, yorkshire, birmingham and essx in particular. Ruined
for the average poster. The majority of groups are empty, except for
troll droppings, spam and the odd genuine post!!!

What amazes me is that some of the netnannies not only boast about
reporting contributors to their ISP but attempt to get other people
to do the same. This gives the troll an extra boast of "adrenaline".
Its all beyond me!

Maybe I am too sensitive a guy.

Thanks for your interest.

A few comments...
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Light use falls into one of four general catagories...

1. Main light - used to create shadow thereby shape.

2. Fill - to lighten as desired/necessary the shadows from #1.

3. Accent - to augment #1 by creating highlights/texture.

4. Background - to separately light an area other than the subject
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If you have two lights, you actually have at least four...reflectors
and/or mirrors can be used.  Scrims are useful too to selectively block
light from an area.  The whole purpose of light is to shape and direct
attention.
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Don't limit yourself to using just umbrellas/softboxes.  Most of the
"Hollywood star look or Rembrandt  type of lighting" photos were made
with "hard" reflectors.  Even spots.  Soft light is easy and can be
effective but it is also forgiving...you'll learn more about light and
learn it more quickly by using hard (non diffuse) light.
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Photographers tend to be far too obsessed with lighting and posing in
portraiture at the expense of the subjects personality.  Use lighting to
accent personality (or a facet of it) and/or to create a feeling (in a
viewer) appropriate to the subject.

--
dadiOH
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Do a google for "joseph zeltsman" and find a set of tutorials about lighting
and posing that are simple and very intelligent.  He is the first to
articulate a logical system for deciding how and why to pose and light a
particular face.

Simplest 2 light set up, bounce one flash off a side wall, use the other for
hair/kick light on the opposite side.   If you look at hollywood portraits
of strong males, they would have a hard key light from one side, and the
shadow side would be sculpted with a half dozen lights from behind,
typically a strong kick light that would, for some reason I never
understood, that would touch the nose, but its strongest point would be to
splash the shadow side of the face and render rough texture.

The concept of a Rembrandt light is that the key light comes from a 45' off
the nose, though in actual practice photogs place the light 45' from the
camera position, this gives you a 'loop' light (which btw is the style of
lighting Rembrandt and portrait painters of that era actually used.)

The typical feminine light, the light would come from above the camera, in
those days they'd use two spots, on right above and other high above, (again
that 45' angle) and then lots of hair lights.  today you'd use a bounce
board under the camera, (watch out for that glowing Rudolph Reindeer
highlight on the tip of the nose)

Actually I find that by posing the subject in an open door and having them
take a step back to 'just' where the light starts to fall off you will get
perfect glamour light as you see in all those makeup ads, just add some hair
light (bounce a flash off the ceiling behind them, you can even rim light
their hair at the same time.)

The great thing about lighting is figuring out your style. Like the
previous posts have stated head to the library and study up and I would
also experiment as much as possible. I hate softboxes and prefer to
bounce light using my SB800 and SB600 wireless off of old projector
screens.

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