Of course, you need a camera and a lens to do photography, but I find my biggest quality of life issues are from the smaller pieces. For example, my life got so much easier when I upgraded my remote triggers and receivers. That got me a reliable, trigger wire-free setup that I know will work every time. Well now I’ve upgraded my backdrop holder (I should probably find out what they are actually called but you know what I am talking about). And it was worth it. No longer am I asking, “will this hold my backdrops?” It definitely is and doing so extremely well.
Anyway, for this test run I just grabbed whoever and had them do a pose and went with the chaos – which turned out well. As I always say, when something unexpected happens you tend to want to go with that. In the case of the four-year-old, I told her to stand at an angle with her arms crossed and her legs shoulder width apart and she came out with a much better interpretation of what I had in mind, so we rolled with that.
By the way, I believe she was Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas for some Halloween related event just before this session.
The set up for this session involves one speed light in back for a hair light and two strobes up front with octagon softboxes up front. No grids this time.