How is my lighting?

This was taken at my home with some basic 2 light setup.

It's a little bit flat, but that's better than being overly dramatic given the subject.

Looks good to me Just get that floor tight

If you have room, place her farther from the backdrop and try to get all her feet in. Smooth out the flooring.

not doing much for me, mainly because the eyes are so dark.

what was your set up?

I used a 47"octobox with a speedlight camera right 45 degrees up and to the right. I used a shoot thru umbrella camera left 45 degrees for fill with speedlight. I'm a hobbyist, so any advise is welcome. I taped the floor down but it didn't hold.

my first thought that the light camera right was too far back to the left of the subject, but i think maybe that the light is too high which is why you are getting the dark eyesockets. Might be a bit of both.

I often just use a 33' octa and a reflector (white foam core board) on the opposite side with small kids. 47' is bigger than she is and hard to get any control over the wrap around.

couple of examples of the one light (actually 32 inch octa, i think, whatever LOL) with foam core directly to their right. These have a hair light, speedlight in a gridded 24" softbox too. The Octa was quite a ways back from the kids.

yowzer, showing up a little red and dark, these might be AdobeRGB or not have a profile at all.

edit: actually the sRGB profile is there, pics look fine in Safari, but crappy in Firefox, weird.

edit2: FWIW, I thought FF was color managed, but apparently it is not very smart when it comes to dual monitors. I had to go in and manually configure it to recognize my custom calibration for my external monitor. This page http://cameratico.com …firefox-color-management/ gives the breakdown, but I had to look a little harder for my custom profile. I found it (like outlined in the article) in the Color Sync application but instead of under User, it was under Computer > Displays > Profile. Now things look nice in FF.

brian4646 wrote in post #17901772
I used a 47"octobox with a speedlight camera right 45 degrees up and to the right. I used a shoot thru umbrella camera left 45 degrees for fill with speedlight. I'm a hobbyist, so any advise is welcome. I taped the floor down but it didn't hold.

You really don't want your fill to be 45degrees. Instead try putting it on the camera axis. The idea is that the key light will create highlights and shadows, and the fill controls their depth. By being on the camera axis the fill softens the shadows the camera sees. By going out to 45 degrees you are filling in the good shadowing, that which gives you some depth, but not giving good fill.