Self-Portrait Practice

I was TOTALLY lost as to what I was going to do for my self-portrait six-weeks project. So today in class I decided to at least experiment as to how I was going to set up my strobes and the my idea would follow. My plan was successful. I used two light stands, a soft box umbrella on one and flash only on the second one. I also used the clicker button that connected to the camera so i could take the picture totally on my own without assistance. Both light stands were extended to about 5 and a half feet because thats the desired view point I wanted for my picture. The light stand with the umbrella was set to the left of the camera literally touching it side by side in order to get the main light to totally light me. I used Alex to pose as myself just so I could see what it would look like. From time to time I took Alex's place in order to make sure that the light settings still were appropriate for me considering that I will be the subject in the final picture and also considering that me and Alex are two different skin tones. In this picture alex is wrapped in black tool and it is also intertwined between her fingers.  In my final photo I will be posed almost exactly the same only that I will use brown tool so it will kind of look like and extension of my skin. My settings were : flash 1(with soft box umbrella)-1/4 power; rim light flash-1/16 power; shutter speed 1/250 sec, ISO 100, aperture varied between 7.1-5.6.