A few readers asked about the “background post” of the other day – how was it lit?

Here’s how:

Four lights:

• A softbox strobe as main light.
• An umbrella strobe (not pictured) as fill.
• And two speedlights: one with a Honl Photo snoot as edge light, and one with Honl Photo gel as background light.
• All manual
• One strobe and both speedlights fired with Pocketwizards; the other strobe with its cell.

That’s a very standard setup for me, and yes, you can learn to do this too.