Portraits

I had a little portrait lesson with Bill and Laura yesterday. Brad and Polina posed, and the results were pretty good. We first tried Rembrandt Light, then soft light on Polina, and hard light on Brad. We used four strobes: two from the front, one for the top of the hair, and one for the backdrop. I still do not get the theory behind this all, but I am getting there. I finally understand the meaning on the inverse square law and the square root of 2 used when computing the distance between stops. It is pretty simple when you get it. But at first you just wonder why the hell they are talking about square roots when they talk about light.