Shooting with a single light

I am a regular reader of all sorts of photography forums such a dpreview, photo.net, POTN (even though I shoot with Nikon) and many others

One of the topics that gets mentioned often is "how many lights do i need to take a good studio shot". I've seen some of the most amazing setups for photos with 8-12 monoblocks, snoots, beauty dishes, etc etc and I think it only serves to turn off people from taking up photography

So how about we try a shoot in the studio with just one light source?

So a call to a model friend Esther, my office chair, a roll of black seamless and one 600W flashhead attached to a medium softbox and we get the image above.

Clean, simple and shot with equipment any GWC could muster up

As yes I know the Cigar wasn't lit. Zippo was out of gas :(