My boy!

ISO 100, 100mm, f/8, 1/160

Key light: 40cm x 40cm Softbox, camera left

Backlight: 66cm x 66cm softbox (made into a strip-light with some black cardboard)

Here's one of our son Oliver. I tried a few things with the lighting, but it wasn't really happening, so I adjusted the angle of the key light from straight on just above to off axis, camera left probably around 45 degrees and adjusted the backlight power to get even light throughout the scene and subtle / soft rim light. I just need him to help me out by lifting up his head now. Still like the shot - most of the shoot he was just happy to bury his face into the bed :)

Still will be searching for my "go to" baby lighting setup though.

Hard lighting

Not the kind of subjects that generally like hard light, but I'm testing a recent investiment in some light modifiers. In this case a HONL grid as the key light. This gives me a nice tight beam of light + feathered edges. This means total control of the background.

This one is just with the grid key light (one light)

This one is with the grid as the key, but also ring flash (Orbis) as on-axis fill probably 2.5 stops under the key.

People subjects come next!