Low Key Studio Shoot with Claire

Today in class was interesting! I chose to do low key because I wanted to play around with rembrandt and split lighting technique. I set up the lighting with a large soft box from the right side. From the top I had a hair line light to separate the subject from the back ground. I was looking to achieve a close-up portrait to really show the technique of split. Split which is where the light is directly half on the face in ratio to shadows. Below is on example of what I shot straight from the camera....