Today I can say I had my first real gig as a photographer.  My friend asked if I could help him out by taking a corporate head shot for his boss’ web site.  Of course I told him it would not be a problem and that it was  perfect timing as I am heading to my company’s winter meeting to do head shots of all my coworkers later in the week.  The setup for this shot was three small strobes.  One in a soft box at camera right as the key, one in a reflective umbrella on camera left as the fill and a third gridded and pointed up at the background from behind the subject.  It turns out that the intended fill light became the key.  I guess I am still learning the ETTL and ratios functions in the Canon system.  However, even though they got switched on me, I like the overall picture.  The lighting is clean and there is good separation from the background.  Maybe next time I will leave just a bit more head room in the shot to allow for future clients to be able to frame their images.