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Crosslighting... Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. This morning, my head feels like a nut in a nutcracker. I have a list of shit to do a mile long and I am really tired of some of the antics around here. There is this one guy... we'll just call him Doofus to protect his identity... every time he needs me to help him troubleshoot a problem he will type an email to me, press the send button, and walk directly to my office to discuss the email he sent me. I often have not received it and almost certainly haven't read it if I had. He expects me to drop everything to cater to his issue. His foolish assumptions regarding our business relationship are only hurting his service level. Some people need a whiffle bat to the head. Another guy this morning actually called me last night in a panic. Shits not working. I tell him that I'll help him and he pulls out the stops. Every correspondence is CC:'d to gaggles of management teams and high profile folks and he calls meetings and raises attention to his problem. Once I get a clear understanding of what his urgent, obviously life threatening issue is, I explain that the access he says isn't there actually is as part of our standard security policy and that it, in fact, should work for him. He tries again and *poof*... magic... it works. Call off the cavalry. Mr. Man shot a wad of flares into the corporate political sky over a fat finger that fell from his glove. I am at the bottom of my cup of coffee and lunch is still too far away. I was running late this morning. I didn't get into the office until quarter after eight. I didn't sleep well last night. I think I have big, purple bags under my eyes... like Grimace. Grimace is sleeping under my eyes. So, yeah... about the photo. Low key. The effect of low key cross lighting is really dramatic, but I goofed and should have had the model a tad more perpendicular to the backlight. I used a 40 degree snap in grid on the 48" softbox from the rear and the a standard 48" softbox (both the slim flavor) for the front. I wanted to do some high key shots as well for high contrast black and white, but the lighting setup would have taken too long and we were on a schedule. Maybe I can talk EL into helping me experiment with that once I get the studio finished at home? I am so so sleepy. I just want to sleep. It is the theme of my day now. Sleep. The irony is bittersweet. I get home and am wide awake. I'm sure there is a psychological factor at play here. I need to snap out of it.