First time with a strobe

Learned a lot today. Mostly that I need more lights, a larger back drop and to turn the power UP! Main reason why they ended up in B&W is because my hot lamps mixed with the strobe didnt do too well :rofl white balance was all over the place and the skin tone was odd :rolleyes
any who, here are the few pictures out of the series I enjoyed
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#4

feel free to critique them if you would like
any who, here are the few pictures out of the series I enjoyed
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#3

#4

feel free to critique them if you would like

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Just and observation really....
Where you going for high key?
I also like the slight grain visible in the image, kinda neat as a film like effect.
I like the lighting on the first one best
the grain is from having to crop so much on the full body shots. For the first one I think its just from using my "cheap" lens.
The back drop I have isnt wide enough and so to get a full body shot, I have to crop in really far. I actually had to use the clone tool on the left side of the full body ones to clone out my blinds haha. That along with a not so nice lens I think are the issues in that aspect.
I still need to get a wireless controller for the strobe instead of using the on camera flash to trigger the strobe. I tried blocking the on camera flash with my hand but I forgot to a few times
What lens did you use?
The general rule for killing the backdrop is to set the lights a stop more then the mains I believe. If I'm wrong I'm sure someone here will correct me
Edit: I am at work right now but later when I get home I'll get up a color one and an example of a before the crop haha
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Thank you! I do have a pretty nice reflector. Or atleast I think it is. It's one of those 5 in 1 deals with the diffuser, gold, silver, white and black. Can't think of the brand off the top of my head. I got it at wolf camera some years ago.
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Edit: Just did a very quick 2 minute shoot and got these (both SOOC):
how is the exposure, skin tone, shadows. . . ?
not really concerned with the pose or subject matter.
Getting back to the lighting, you have already gotten some really good advice so I won't add to that for now and I'b curious to see what else you come up with in addition to the impromptu shoot you posted already.
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#3 she was just being silly for this one haha
I think I had the strobe set a bit too high up. Any C&C is welcome. For the most part I am looking for critique on the lighting.