Here's an image that's outside my normal -- but I had the opportunity to help Ryan with his portfolio and this image really came together.

We wanted to take the Tucson mid-day sun and tame it to be night. I wanted a cartoonish, urban feel and the alley behind the Mat Bevel studio begged with the overhead electricl transformers as seen in the background.

I wanted a high contast, dark, illustrative effect. I used 2- 400 w/s strobes behind Ryan and to each side. This created that intense edge lighting on both sides. It look symmetrical because they were the same distance apart and both had 20" softboxes to soften the light a bit and keep the light more even. Fill was an overhead 800 w/s ringflash. The flash was high enough to create the under-chin shadow. The sun was very high over my left shoulder.

Here's the original image, Straight from the camera.