Making great images sometimes involves more than putting your subject in a scene with prime-lighting and then pressing the shutter release. There can be a number of steps and decisions along the way but arguable one of the most important choices is what you do with the image after the shoot. Bear with me for a minute and I'll give a little pre-shoot history for capturing the two examples I've provided for this article. The first step was booking the model, talking with her about what I wanted, and then discussing clothing options. April (the model) provided makeup and clothes, I provided the rest. For the set. I decided on using a patch of dirt in my backyard with an old canvas for a backdrop and an old wooden box. I wanted to keep it simple and was shooting for dramatic and contrast of elegant with old. The chair was almost left out but April happened to see it and mentioned that we should put it in; the chair turned out to be a valuable addition. For the lighting set-up, I used mid-day sun which was my back-light. I metered, then pushed the strobe a stop and a half over what I was getting for the ambient light. The main light was a Whitelightning x3200 strobe set to camera-right at 45 degrees, bare bulb, 6" reflector, 7'