Misha - haha... I sure hope pane #6 looks dark, it's a black square. :) hehehe ... I just didn't want a big white space there. Yes, worked with the instructor. We started with a lighting set up that I'd never seen before. The first 81 shots used a 3 light setup: 2 key lights with softboxes, 1 background light with gel and no fill. Then we removed one light, lowered one light to a background stand, and added a reflector for working on reclining poses. Then for the last set, raised light back up but left reflector. We went through metering the space in 3 dimensions. Meaning, mapping out your light at multiple key points so that you get an idea of exposures as the model moved in all 3 axes. Then, once the model arrived, she started directing as I shot. Going through a half dozen or more pose setups and then talking through directing the model to morph these into dozens more. The whole time I am shooting, she was pointing out things to watch for, prompting me to stop shooting at times and to move through the scene to see the different things going on, showing by example how to let the model know what you need, what you want, how to give enough prompting but not so much as to stiffle what the model brings and a lot of other little things that years of experience brings. Man that was so cool. We did that for about an hour and then she said the scariest sentence I have heard in a long time, "Ok ... I'm going to sit back, you'r directing everything. Go." Talk about deer in the headlights look. :) Whole thing was almost 3 hours (30 minutes on setup, 2 hours with model, 10-15 minutes to break down studio). Next week we'll go through what I shot and then onto independent assignments. -=>Donald