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(Texas Old West Re-enactors all over the place)

Over many years Texas has mostly felt like a very safe place to do photography, when doing it inside a studio, or with a crew.

The umbrella also works as a maim (not a maim) main light from one side with the second umbrella from the other side and farther back working as a soft background light, as well as the spillage from that strobe head being an edge light, past the back umbrella edge, on the shadow side from the...

Oh, don't leave a hot light on too close to that scrim.

This is really old school, but I use a tripod most of the time, or a monopod. Makes it easy but it does really depend on what and how you shoot. There's also this fold to the side magnifier by Hasselblad that is great for anything from portrait distance on out. It works with several prism...

That self portrait of the camera does have a little flair at the flash. The OP's assignment didn't say anything about just a little flair tho! So does that polarizer effect require a linear polarizer or a circular polarizer? I was way off for a while there thinking he meant lighting a Night Club!

David, Using a light shot thru a scrim works very well for close ups. By moving the light around or back and forth, thru the scrim, you can temper it to to have harder or softer light as well as having better control on reflective objects in your set up. Control the fill with the distance to a...

Great Panoramic there! About the mini size ball head on the light monopod mentioned before, it works great with a small flash along with a fill flash on the camera. Makes for hand held controllable main light with no on camera flash look. Kind of brings an old Hass up to date.

Also in things which are continually appearing, and even so thru anticipation and contrivance they are created for a moment. Nice looking lens.

Not having had the courage to fly for a while I would add that i have a 2x3 inch plate with a quarter twenty nut welded on it, padded on top for the ball head on my mini monopod. so for all length lenses it works OK, so far. Taking a plane somewhere is looking much more likely very soon, so...

Having been gifted with a very lightweight Manfrotto compact monopod that has five clipped sections, and then adding a Rowe small ball head, I have found it works very well compressed all the way in, with a Hasselblad with the ball head tightened so that it forms sort of a short (ft. long)...

It all helps. Thanks folks!

YesSir! Agreed!

I have moved, with a darkroom but without water, and except for 5gal. buckets and and evap. tank for waste water due to septic tank requirements, and that we have about 20 Deer for dinner each day who probably don't like the effects of photo effluents in their water, how much water would be...

Where you are would be a wonderful place to be! I am temporarily setting up a processing room where I can take the used water out easily using a somewhat short wash cycle and an evaporative setup. The space now has temp control baths for the processing of 120 film and after a while a larger...