Here is another single light session with emphasis on the back light. I set the light behind my subject so that they would eclipse the light. This created a light silhouette on them and by setting it high enough I could get a light spill over to light them up ever so slightly. The main thing to keep in mind with this sort of technique is that your subjects understand or have someone who understands that a bright flash is on one side of them – you don’t want to blind them. The other thing to keep in mind is that they are eclipsing the bring flash and if they don’t a bright flash will be coming your direction.
When working with babies, have a parent around to make things run more smoothly or at least have an assistant. It is tricky to operate a camera and watch a baby at the same time and you don’t want something to happen to the baby while you are distracted so get an assistant. In this case, I had her mother hold her on the stool and interact with her. Go figure, babies like their parents and parents can get a good reaction out of their babies.
When processing photos like these consider carefully what you have as these sorts of photos tend to lend for some creative cropping and temperature adjusting as well as lending well to gray scale. If your subject is looking into negative space, emphasis that. Change the mood by adjusting the temperature more towards blue or red depending on what you are going for. Finally, these always tend to look well as grayscale.