salt-n-peppa

A few days ago, we got to talking about ethnic diversity [different is good]. That spun off into an email conversation about photographing a lighter person and darker person together. My thought is that it could be much more challenging than when taking a family portrait where they're all nearly the same color. Kapish?

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I saw a photo of a couple of young people who were on opposite ends of the light spectrum. My nephews here, are not as extreme, but this is the best I've done yet with these two. It was purely by accident, but the general background was was kind of a neutral gray, light behind the darker nephew and dark behind the lighter one. I used flash for fill-in, and then edited the image to remove just a little of the color saturation, because that red shirt wanted to steal the show.

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What do you think? What kind of poses, lighting or other tips do you think might be helpful for creating a good photograph of a combo light and dark subject? Maybe you can even point to some good samples??