Thursday evening represented  a bit of a first for me ... shush, don't tell any one, but I did my first beauty shoot.  The shoot was with Melissa who I have known for a few years now.  Melissa is a fitness instructor and a graduate of Ryerson School of Fashion with a major in marketing, hmmm perhaps I should leverage that :)  I've been wanting to do this sort of shot since I saw it demonstrated by Scott Kelby at a seminar he held back in June.    The lighting set up is quite simple and gives a rather distinctive look to the images.  The technique is called Clam-Shell or sometimes referred to as Pumpkin-Seed because of the orientation of the lights.  The light that is placed above the model and tilted downward at a 45 degree angle towards the face is a beauty dish.  The light that about mid-drift high relative to the model is generally a small soft box, again angled to a 45 to the model's face.  Generally the beauty dish is attached to a boom arm to as not to interfere with the camera's line of sight.  In this case I didn't put the beauty dish on a boom arm and one can see how the light drops off on Melissa's camera right face -- lesson learnt.  Just the same I think for a first attempt it came out 'okay'.    Below are a couple of images from the 250+ that I took on Thursday.