Hannah and her Snuggle Puppy

This portrait of my daughter Hannah and Snuggle Puppy is the result of my first session using a strobist lighting setup. Strobist lighting is a method of lighting using off camera strobes (flash), and radio transceivers made popular by David Hobby's strobist blog www.strobist.blogspot.com. I lit this shot using a shoot thru umbrella located above, and to camera right.
 
I shot in camera raw and converted into photoshop CS3 via ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) plugin. I then color corrected, cropped, and used a black and white adjustment layer set to an opacity of 70% to get the desaturated look. You can see the original unedited image here on Flickr.