Like it, and you have a very cool job!

Are you familiar with the old Far Side cartoon where the sound guy is turning up the "Suck" pot? "Raymond's last day as the band's sound technician." Whenever I see a mixing console I see that cartoon.

Nice photos - Did you shoot any of the waterfowl from a lower perspective?

Thanks, very cool concept. Manipulating the light close to the flash, the edges of the projected shadows would be somewhat indistinct by the time they reached the subject, but it might look very interesting. I have these tiny 5 x 8 inch soft boxes that strap to my flashes. I used them for these exposures because while they soften the flash a bit, they still give focused point source for light to generate sharp shadows. Those soft boxes would provide a fairly flat surface to tape a screen upon.

I'm interested in this type of information as well. Most of us have access to our EXIF information for exposure, F-Stop, Shutter speed, and ISO. That and a brief description of the lighting set-up would be greatly appreciated.

BTW, these images are very nicely exposed. Seriously, no pun intended.

A bit of fun with the same set-up where my model shot herself for about 30 frames or so, kind of a sophisticated take on a naughty selfie. Left hand placement could be better, but I liked the expression.

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Thanks John, Critical is not a negative thing in my book. It's why I'm showing our photos. Great images in those links, BTW.

Yes, my space is lacking and distracting. This room just happens to be the biggest, emptiest space in our humble abode and sadly it will soon be filled again. In the mean time, I'm going to try and find some kind of backdrop that's long enough to extend out onto the floor.

A group of couples that we're friends with rent studio time together a few times a year and most of that shooting revolves around boudoir and nude photography. We also meet to do outdoor location shooting. It's become an interesting experience that we all look forward to, especially the men, LOL. The wives plan together and scheme and think about themed shoots where they can all pose together for a few sets. Even with those outings, it is very nice having a space at home that's large enough to allow for a portrait type focal length.

Thank you Stardust

Something slightly different, one outboard flash turned off, trying to get a nice breast shadow. The "model" did not like the thickness of the shadow.

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Yes, I did. Perhaps my first two submissions to this forum might make it look like I do indeed need a posing book :-)

I will try not to take that negatively, LOL You realize that these two poses were made to get the shadow patterns, right?

I understand your opinion, but the goal was for the shadows to be a focal point. I could shoot this same pose at F 4 with soft boxes and more distance to the wall (in a different room) and the shadows would disappear almost entirely. In fact, most times we as photographers are fighting shadows instead of embracing them.

The scrim is an interesting idea, that will require setting up along the long axis of the room, but doable. I have a very light gauge white backdrop, but I bet it will be too opaque. Maybe something cheap from eBay...

Thank you, and the model thanks you as well. It's fun to try different things. It's funny, but when it comes to documenting our lives, family, vacations, etc, I've always been a snapshot kind of guy. In doing figure work of my wife, it's been fun to try and make the photography a bit more sophisticated. And then possibly it's a shameless way to justify gear and lingerie. I have thousands of images of her and of course most of them aren't all that good, but enjoyable to look at just the same.

Different Day, slightly different light placement and a different lens, a Tamron 17-50, but again pulled all the way wide. F-13, 1/200, ISO 125. Flashes much hotter, I didn't take good notes, but probably around 1/2 power for the outboards and 1/8th power for front. We experimented moving in and out from the wall and had fun looking at the patterns. I'm looking to gray and white backdrops to use in this space for the next couple of months while we work on other portions of the basement. I'll probably set up a couple more times to capture images that accentuate shadows and with a less busy background I'm hoping the results will be better. Thankfully I have a patient and willing model.

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So true. All the settings, high F-Stop, point source lighting, etc, were chosen to generate distinct shadows. The only problem is when you use flashes as a light source you can't see what the shadows are going to look like until after the shot and then you're looking at a small image on the camera back. Also, you only have a rough idea of how to manipulate them if you want to change them. We decided just to shoot a bunch and see how they turned out. This isn't one of the better ones, but one of the more anonymous images. I'll ask for permission to post another :-)

Your comments are much appreciated. It's definitely not the best "studio" space. We're renovated a basement room and just took the old suspended ceiling down, hence the brown strip at the top of the wall. I wish I could reserve the space for a legitimate in-home studio but there are other plans for the space and as you can see, the ceilings are very low, something aggravated by the low camera position. Never thought about the soles of the feet. I'm sure the wife would say there's a reason women wear high-heeled shoes and certain parts of her "40-ish" anatomy look better when she's not standing flat-footed, LOL.