Lighting Techniques
One Light, Done Right: How a Single Strobe Can Outwork a Five-Head Setup
I used to own eleven lights. I counted them once while reorganizing my studio on a slow Tuesday, and the number genuinely embarrassed me. Not because eleven is too many, but because I could trace the purchase of at least four of them to insecurity. Some shoot went sideways, and my instinct was to buy another head, another fill, another hair light, as if more gear would paper over whatever I didn’t understand yet.