This was an interesting photo to take. It was all about her eyes. I was standing on a ladder and shooting just about straight down. Wanda was looking up with her head tipped back just far enough so she still had to look up at me. This gave that little bit of white below her nice blue iris. We had a black sheet on the floor. One light was on a boom bounced into a silver umbrella above her and just to her right. We had another light on a stand behind her bounced off an umbrella to light her hair. That umbrella had the bottom half covered by a piece of black cardboard to keep light from spilling onto the the black sheet. There were two reflectors. I used one just in front and below her face to fill shadows under her chin and nose. The other reflector was just to her left to bounce some of the hair light back into the left side of her face and hair. Overall I think it turned out OK.
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