Lighting Tutorials
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This is kind of the lighting style of 2009 or so.....
Two gridded strip boxes 45 degrees to rear right and left, boomed beauty dish overhead, background lit or unlit.. for a pure white sweep background, stand model 10-15 feet in front of background, use 2 or 4 heads aimed inside V-Flats, i.e. 2 4x8 feet foamcore taped like a bookend...
YouTube has TONS of lighting tutorials....
www.strobist.com for small strobe work....
Renting a studio and a lighting assistant for 1 day can teach you a TON....
if you're in LA, just finding the time to go to some APA meetings, meet some photo lighting assistants, become friends with them, buy them beer, ask if you can just pay their day rate for a tutorial...
or, better yet, if you're a freelancer, become a second-assistant for a while, you'll learn a TON.... second-assistants may work for free the first day, and there's alot of doing things like fetching coffee or extension cords, but you learn a TON by just being on a set and watching the light tests....