As requested, I’ll take some time now to go over the basics of off camera lighting.  While it may seem intimidating, with patience and a lot of practice it’ll be impossible to separate you from those flashes!
 

So in this case study we’ll be decomposing the following picture. Take a minute and see if you can figure out how I lit it. Then see how you did after the jump. I’ll be walking you through how to decompose an image as if I didn’t shoot it… so hopefully you’ll be able to [...]