I've written about photo school with its state of the art lighting equipment and how when I graduated I could only afford clip on lights(if I asked mom to buy them for me) and wondered why I couldn't quite get the same results. Then learning how to achieve good results with less and all....well I was thinking about George Hurrell and Yosuf Karsh again and really wished now I could spend money to get even more lights. I have three and they have personality(a nice way of saying I didn't pay much for them and they sometimes act as if I didn't pay much for them) and I try to get results out of them that...well look like they're expensive. Truth is I have to really work it and dig deep into my photo knowhow to get the results I do sometimes. I'd love to have a $5,000 light kit with a $5,000 camera and a $2,200 lens because it would make my results easier to achieve and even better because of fine tuning and control. I read one time that Karsh or Hurrell--i forget which one used 16 lights on one picture. And that was probably in the day when they were pretty hot lamps so the temperature must've been up there a bit in the studio. I don't think I'd want to go to that extreme, but 5 lights would be good--maybe 7....someday. For now I'll have fun trying to make pictures with minimal equipment we have and hopefully be able to brag someday to young photographers--'You know back in my day we didn't have.....blah blah blah....SayerMotter photographs of Jaclyn during a recent senior picture shoot. I was thinking about George Hurrell alot here!