Front Cover Photography Process: Setting up equipment

After styling the cover star, I set up the soft-box lighting equipment, the black/white screen (depending on the outfit that my cover star would be wearing in the shot), a tripod to place the camera on, and the camera was set in position. I placed the lights, one shining on the background, one in the foreground to shine over the models face and one on the ground. I experimented with different angles, and positioning of the lighting and by turning different lights on and off depending on how the lighting looked when the cover star was in front of the lights.