Basic lighting setup webs or info wanted

dennis wrote:
 > Can anyone direct me to a few good sites on setting up studio lighting
 > or light setup techniques? I'm wanting some basic info to set up
 > portrait photos and such. I want to learn about lighting. I see lots
 > of books for sle that I might pick up after I gather some basic
 > understandings.

You'll get some good answers if you post to rec.photo.technique.people. If
someone named zeitgeist responds, you're in luck.

There's also a yahoo group: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/z-ProPhoto/" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/z-ProPhoto/</a> .

Here's a link to a wonderful, free little book by Dean Collins on how to
build your own lighting rigs
for almost nothing:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.deancollins.com/tt-book.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.deancollins.com/tt-book.pdf</a>

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