One of my many gripes about photographers, pro or amateur, is they go to great lengths and expense buying and using all kinds of fancy lighting and light modifiers for in studio work, then when they are not in a controlled studio environment they go back to shooting badly lit candids. My opinion is if you want to run with the big dogs then you run with the big dogs 100% percent of the time not when it's convenient. The picture above was taken in my daughter's living room with dark blue walls and a white ceiling. I placed her dog on the brown leather sofa and I sat on the floor about 6 feet away. I used two Nikon sb 600 speedlights placed facing straight up. One to the left on the TV table at 1/4 power and one to the right of my subject on a regular end table at 1/2 power. Flashes were triggered on camera with cowboy remote flash triggers. This whole portrait session took me 3 min. to set up. Just because you are out of your studio doesn't mean you shouldn't always strive to take the best picture possible.
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