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I know a lot of people who want to get a fancy lighting set up... but some of my favorite portraits were done with window light!! This was taken in a large warehouse...I angled the grey backdrop so it caught a bit of the light from the huge, open warehouse door. I had my model focus on something close by, and filled the darker side of her body/hair with a large white reflector. The first shot (girl in black dress looking to her side) was taken with a Hasselblad 500 cm 6x6 film camera. The second shot is the same girl in a red dress - EXACTLY the same set up - but facing head-on to the large door. It was taken with a Canon 1Ds MkII camera and my favourite Canon lens, the 85mm f/1.2L. The 3rd shot was taken with my old Speed Graphic Pacemaker large format 4x5 film camera - combined with the massive Kodak Aero Ektar lens from world war 2 (see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stophoto/4465052086/ ). Shot with the same set up. I shot this at f/2.5 - which is wide open with this huge lens. It gives a very soft look at that f stop as you can see. It was taken on the Fujifilm 100b45 black and white film and an old 545 Polaroid back cropped to square format. Window light rules!!! Stophoto More photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stophoto/