There are thousand dollar light kits, all great stuff. These light kits allow you to manipulate the light to do just what you want it to do if you take the time to really learn how. I've spent a lot of time with some pretty fancy lights. Back in photography school 20 plus years ago we had state of the art stuff. Tonight, I used a floor lamp like you could buy at nearly any store that sells floor lamps. My shoot with Agrippine went very well despite not using the studio lighting that I usually use. I couldn't do some things--I could stop action and have Agrippine jumping or anything like that, but I could direct the lights and create dramatic shadows and the like. I haven't been able to go through all the images yet, but I did like this one right off the bat and decided to make it todays featured picture. I liked how Agrippine was small and the shape of her shadow dominates the composition. I will use this one light idea several more times. Photograph by Richard Sayer