Catch light

Catchlight is a light source in the subject/model's eye in a portrait/photograph which causes specular highlight - I found it hard at first to get the soft boxes and lights in the correct area; but when I did I felt the photographs looked 10x better than previous. Catchlight really does help to bring a portrait to life.

Here you can see more light in the right eye - this is due to the split lighting I have used - not enough light has been let into the left eye - but I don't think it makes a big different if the catchlight is the same on both eyes, just as long as it is there then I feel it brings the portrait to life.

Here is the same situation; catchlight is not perfect in both eyes; however still visible.