Quote Originally Posted by cyberlord
OK, on to my question, is the brolli to high?...
First of all, for those of you raised on this side of the Big Pond, a brolly is an umbrella. Or, to paraphrase the delightfully British definition, "a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy"...

Tim, there's no exact answer to your question. Different positions of any of your lights wil simply give you different results. That's not automatically good or bad. It's what you see in the picture that counts.

Personally, I prefer a high key light (which is why ceiling height is such a precious comodity for a studio space), BUT it has to either be fairly soft or balanced with a fill, or the shadows may be a bit funky over the subject's face.

IMO, what you show here is fine, and very traditional. And therein lies the trade-off. Much of the time a more stylish (or stylized) image is created when you move away from the "formulas"...