Photographing A Male Model In The Studio

I was in the studio recently photographing an amateur model shown here in two of the best shots from a couple of hours I spent photographing him. We sat and discussed some ideas for a while before the shoot and the brief really was to take some head shots, portraits, not too close up, mostly head and shoulders, in order to give him a taste of a photographic studio. Understandably he was nervous at first, having never been in front of the camera in this way before, but after a while I think he relaxed and that's when we got the best images.