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Using a two strobe solution can produce an issue where the eye has two catchlights - which some like, but others find unnatural and distracting.

Lighting can make or break a portrait. In my experience, it’s often what turns an ordinary snapshot into a professional-looking image. Clamshell lighting is a technique that’s simple yet powerful, and it can take your photography to the next level. While I used a beauty dish in this example, you can easily use a silver reflector dish, umbrella, or softbox. Any light source you have can work well for this effect, just remember to angle the light down toward the model at a 45° angle or steeper so that your reflector can catch the light. By using a softbox, you’ll get a softer and generally less contrasty effect than if you used a beauty dish.

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I don't want to work that way cause it's not flexible enough and brings numerous problems cause you don't have enough control to the quality and quantity of light of BOTH lower and upper modifier imo:

You’ll need light stands (so that you can carefully position your clamshell setup), and you’ll want a flash trigger (because each flash will need to come off your camera). You can play with different combinations of lighting strength, though to do this with a reflector you’ll want to move it closer and farther away from the subject’s face. Adding a Third Light

Technically, you can use clamshell lighting in most portrait situations. It works well on most subjects, and will give you images that are bright and eye-catching. You can use clamshell lighting for family portraits, for corporate headshots, for fashion shots, and much, much more. Typically, I put the bottom of the beauty dish about eye level with the subject or even a bit lower. The higher the light source is in comparison to the subject, the more defined the shadows become on the subject’s face. Otherwise we will end up calling each other jerks cause we hurt each other feelings without any benefits of getting better in what we love. Constructive criticism and additional experience is always welcome in this topic. You may want to vary the height of your lights. If you think the light looks too flat, consider raising your top light to pull out some more shadows. If the shadows still look flat, turn down the power of your bottom light. By turning down the power of the bottom light, you’re reducing the fill light and more of the shadows on the face can now show through. Many beauty campaigns will have a little bit of fill so that the face still has shape, but overall the image has an airy feel. My light modifier of choice for beauty photography is the beauty dish. A beauty dish is a fantastic light modifier because it gives you defined shadows but not harsh light. For example, a softbox has wrapping shadows and soft light. A silver reflector dish modifier has defined shadows but harsh light. A beauty dish is a fantastic light that’s a happy medium between the two. Beauty dishes are regularly used by the world’s most successful portrait and fashion photographers.