One of the fun things about doing so much photography everyday and for so many years is that I'm not at all afraid of breaking everything rule that has been taught to or learned by me in the last 20 something years. Expose correctly, don't shoot directly into the light, don't light a shot from below, don't get your studio lights in the shot, don't don't don't...... Somehow I hear these lessons in my head sometimes and I hear them as do do do. Or at least try try try! Two nights in a row I had fun trying to make images in a way I haven't before(at least not on purpose.) One session we were looking for these very high key high contrast almost featureless photos, we achieved this through some complex lighting at first and then by very simple 'mistake' style lighting at the end of the shoot. The results are these almost poster-like drawings. The next night back-lighting the smoker was key to making the pictures have this sort of theatrical/night-club look even though they were taken in a very grungy old back room that was once a darkroom and now a storage room. Then using a harsh sidelight from down below to light my subject--this created some bad shadows if we didn't position her just right, but in the end worked out well to create this sort of high fashion look to a picture that was taken in a very un-glamorous location. Photographs by Richard Sayer