Picking up the Rodenstock Sironar-N 210/5.6 lens tonight and will mount it on the #1 lensboard I'm currently using shimmed to #0 for the similar 150/5.6 lens. That will give me a better people lens for the studio. As I've got at least one upcoming shoot there, I'd best also get busy cleaning it up a bit and setting up some light.

I may not have mentioned it, but I'm not a fan of strobes. Even with modeling lights it's hard to tell what one will get. Polaroids are helpful, but I sold my 180 camera years back and would prefer not to have to deal with Polaroid backs and such. Or the new digital alternative. I suppose I could pull out the digicam just to be sure though. Have to think about whether that's in keeping with my current goals - I don't think it is.

What I've done in the studio for awhile is simply bounce hotlights off the white walls. It's not entirely satisfactory as the light source is effectively far enough back that the black seamless starts to go grey. Having a more effective close soft light would be useful. I've built a PCV tube 4x8 foot frame that supports a white painter's drop cloth and may hang that from the ceiling with wires and light it from above, flagging off the seamless with the barndoors. (Sort of thinking out loud here.)

The first shoot is of a woman I know casually and she wants some specifically non-sexual figure pictures and that kind of soft light would work great. The next shoot is bondage and the light would also be nice for that. Tonight I'll go see if I have all the right stuff available or if I'll have to run to Home Depot.

Candy (linked on the right) lying about in a motel room in West Hollywood, California. Go see her blog - very interesting writing.