I was working with a new lighting arrangement in my workshop after work today.
I usually like to have some seperation between my subject and backdrop.
Today I had the light and posing stool right in front of the backdrop,
so that one light would light the whole shot.

I don't have any white seamless paper yet, so I was using a white sheet that I hung in my room
to take some of the wrinkles out of it.

So I took a meter reading and got f/11 on my forehead in a seated position,
with the 28" softbox up high in front of me at a 45 degree angle.

I wanted to make sure the light was going to be angled correctly so I asked Ian to sit in for a test shot.

The first shot of him seated was horribly underexposed since he's obviously much shorter than me.
Rather than move the light, I told him to stand on the stool so that he'd be closer to my height.

Since he was pretty high up on the stool, he kept looking at the floor instead of the lens.
I snapped the pic and as the image appeared on the lcd, I knew it was a test shot no more.