Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=mjr

The best advice about studio lights came to me from member mjr. The link is to that photographers gallery. These are mostly nudes so be ready for that. The images to me are wonerfully done. I IM'd mjr about lighting and that is where I got the suggestion to start off "considering the light" like natural light...a single point of light, like the sun, reflected as it is, etc. This is an excellent first direction. All we see in nature is illuminated from essentially the sun and the reflections and ramifications of that. To learn to do a decent studio shot with one light...something to accomplish...once accomplished, then add the other lighting. The images in mjr's gallery are to me very good examples of lighting well done. With the human body, mislighting or lighting done too dramatically is obvious, moreso than with subjects we are not quite so familiar. I credit the initial advice I got on studio lights to this 'rosity member. I hope it is ok to put a link to that gallery here. Remember, if you do not want to see nudes, do not go there. All is done well and in good taste of the artist. This member of 'rosity helped me a bunch. I am sure others are here to help also. Being a general outdoors shooter, doing indoor or even outdoor assisted lighting was a new and totally different challenge. It is not that difficult to get into. To master..well, that is a long ways off for me. Still, I at least now have direction and the basic tools to try. Tom. Happy Holidays if you are celebrating any, otherwise, have a wonderful day and the next day too.