Studio Lighting - Model Shoot

Tonight in our photography class we learned about different types of lighting setups used in a studio. We had two awesome models that we worked with using different lighting and studio strobes. This was by far one of most fun of all the classes we have had so far and we had a lot of time to shoot and try out different things. It is amazing what you can do with just some simple inexpensive lights such as taking two dual tube fluorescent lights that are daylight balanced and placing them on either side of your subject. Just by merely moving those two lights around in different configurations can yield some really cool results. Then with studio strobes triggered by a radio slave, in our case we used Pocket Wizards to fire off the flash that bounced off an umbrella or was used in a softbox. This gave us a completely different effect. The only sad part about tonight was knowing that next week will be our last class but I totally plan on taking the Intermediate course at Vancouver Photo Workshop come April. Here are some photos from tonight's class.