When it gets warmer (prob in April) I hope to get outside with some of my shoots.
For now,.. my livingroom is my only option.
The windows only allow enough light for about 1/25 or less at 400 ISO. I am shooting at 200 ISO because of the bounce flash.
I have three little continuous lights, two that are CFL equivalent to 60 Watts and one that is CFL equiv. to 100 watts. They are in silver work lamp shades (the kind you get at the hardware store).
I also have two pieces of white foam board to reflect light off of. I have reflected the 100 watt light off of the board once and got an ok picture... but with the black background, lost the persons dk hair.
I can clamp one of the lights on one of my studio compression rods (that hold up my backdrop). The only prob is this past Sat I got a strange green hue, and they are supposed to be daylight bulbs. Hopefully these are not to many thoughts, I hope this helps
Again, I hope to reagrange the living room so that I have more space (also so I can get my "models" away from the backdrop do get some DOF). So much to figure out.... but right now, lighting is most important... it really helps make or break the picture... and I am not getting enough pictures with good lighting.
Thanks so much for your response.