Part 1: Hardware (continued)

ISO setting, could have avoided the problem, and made the assignment much simpler.  But as you can see, I got the cover shot.

Not to belabor the point, but I was faced with exactly the same situation even before B.B. King went on stage.  For the initial interview, I had to shoot in his dressing room:  no windows, very limited space, no time to set up studio lights, and I had to get the shots for the article while dancing around the interviewer and her subject.  Here's what I came up with:

		For this portrait, I used a top mounted Nikon strobe on my D100 and aimed it at a side angle to the wall and ceiling to get softened bounce lighting. In addition, I placed a tiny  underwater strobe (I didn't have any other slaved strobe) on top of a wall cabinet for more fill light and to add highlights.
While the above example may seem like a bit of shameless self-promotion, it's actually used to demonstrate a principle:  knowing the basics allowed me use minimal equipment and still get maximum results (being divorced once and a dotcom casualty twice forces you to become creative on a very limited budget)  But that's a story for another day...

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