The Sunny Side of Losing My Studio

I've been rather glum since the realization that, soon, I'm not going to have my own studio any longer. That certainly doesn't mean I won't be shooting any studio stuff, it just means I won't have the luxury and convenience of my own place to do it in.

I'm also disturbed at the prospect of moving all my crap out. I hate moving. I mean I really hate moving. Probably many of you do as well. I have a lot of stuff and that means a lot of work packing and sorting and organizing and tossing things away. I hate doing that. It takes time and organizatonal skills and I'm lazy, generally disorganized, and a terrible procrastinator. The hardest thing for me to make sure doesn't happen is to suddenly find myself about a week away from having to leave and realizing I haven't done much about doing that.

But there might be a sunny side to this-- Maybe I'll be less lazy about going out into the great outdoors to shoot? Given a choice, I'll usually opt to shoot in the studio where it's all under my control, the lighting that is. Going outside means you're trying to turn the sun--a nearby heavenly body that could care less that I'm using its expended photons to light some, uhh... heavenly bodies-- and turn it into a wonderful and dynamic light source. That doesn't mean, of course, that I leave it all to the sun... if there's an A/C outlet within a hundred feet or so, I'm plugging in some lights. Plus, there's always my trusty speedlights which are battery-operated and which I can certainly fire remotely as well as modify with umbrellas, bounce cards, softboxes, and all that sort of stuff. Not to mention I can capture the sun's photon's and reflect and modify them!

I'm trying to be optimistic, can you tell?

So maybe... just maybe... this being without a personal studio thing will make me a better all-around shooter?

I guess time will tell.

The heavenly body lit by a heavenly body (with a little help from some artificial sources) is Vanessa. Nice boo-tay presentation in that first shot, huh?