With all the technologies, techniques, equipment and experience a photographer gains over time, it's easy to forget that the simplest shoots are often times the best.

For this shot, I used a bare alien bee AB800 light and mounted a diffuser in front of it. The nice thing about using a stand-alone diffuser instead of a softbox is that you can control how soft the light is by changing the distance between the model, the diffuser and the light source.

The background, a seemingly plush wall, is actually a sofa cushion turned on its side, sitting on the kitchen counter.

For the sake of the young children on the set, the smoke was added in post.

Hair and make-up credit goes to Jamaica Girton, special effects and make-up artist in northern california: <a href="http://www.modelmayhem.com/jamaicagirton" rel="nofollow">www.modelmayhem.com/jamaicagirton</a>

Just Kidding.

Oh yeah. The model is Deli. MM #649013 and the image was captured with a Canon 5D and Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro (I call it the "150L")