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Yes. Lighting is about the bits you don't light, i.e. it's about creating shadows (in the right places). Even = flat = boring.Ahh.. Your saying that one of the reasons it's lacking is because it's too evenly lit then?
That may work well, it may not. As I said before, making it higher and further away makes it effectively smaller and harsher. That may or may not give you an effect that suits, put if I was doing this job my guess is that I would want it as low as possible to get the overhead fill as soft as possible - the difference though is that I have lights that have far more adjustment than yours. You may find that the answer lies in another layer of ND gel, maybe 0.3.When I turned on the overhead flash I moved the boom up as high as it'd go and it cured it. I don't have the pictures here on my laptop but I'm sure the results were similar to the 2nd picture in my last post.
I'm going to try this again in the morning with the boom angled up much higher and the flash head angled back down so it's higher and farther away still.
You actually purchased the lightweight home studio boom. Now, the heavyweight one really is fantasticI purchased one of those heavy duty Lencarta booms. It's fantastic!