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40D 17-40L 580EX II 430 EX II 430 EX 2-Reflector Umbrellas

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Your subjects are in a great pose and have very good expressions. The background is a little too hot. I would cut back drastically on that background light. Do you see hot spots on the shoulders of his white shirt?

Do you see the pattern of light and shadow on your subjects? When you analyze the patterns do you see anything that you would classify as unreal - such as light coming from two directions at once?

Let me suggest a different approach:
*************Studio Portrait Lighting**************​*
Tutorial on Studio Portrait Lighting Using Two Lights, with Emphasis on Rembrandt Lighting:
http://www.zaffora.com​/W9DMK/PortraitLightin​g.htm
or the downloadable PDF version at:
http://www.zaffora.com​/W9DMK/PortraitLightin​g.pdf

Also see this helpful reference:
http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Rembrandt_light​ing

Bob, thank you very much for the info and will try to incorporate it in future portraits.