This overview shot was taken from above the position of the tripod, you can just see the tip of the lens hood entering the frame at the bottom.

Surface

The surface is a glass table, which looks like a mirror from the shallow shooting angle in the final shot (the lens will be about 20cm above the table, putting it at the figure's eye-line.) If you look closely, you'll see that I've added a sheet of black card underneath the glass to prevent the chairs underneath from showing up in the photo.

Main light

The main light is the cardboard box on the left. At the rear end of the box is an ungelled flash, pointing at white paper towels that I've taped over the opening. I've used the box's open flaps to block its light from hitting the background, which would reduce the saturation of the background colour. It's firing at about 1/8 power.

Rear light

At camera-right is a flash covered with a blue gel, with a mini "speedlite softbox" attached, firing at about 1/16 power. This provides the blue highlight on the right side of the figure.

Laptop

Dust on the figure is very hard to see on the camera's display, so I take my first few shots tethered to the laptop with Lightroom's live capture session feature. By zooming in and panning around the image, I can spot where the dust particles are, and then brush them off with a physical lens brush before I start the real shooting.