OK, I have finally gone (strobe) crazy.

I have been looking a lot at getting another set of mid grade lights. Reading everything i can find, surfing the web, reading light posts here at PTON, just being thuro with my homework.

Well Im eating dinner at Taco Bell tonight, They have a poster of tomatoes, Big deal you say. Well I catch myself reverse engineering the shot while I'm eating. Looking at the catch lights on the tomato, estimating the size to what size lightbox they were useing. How close the reflector probably is. etc...etc. I catch my self and realize Im just going nuts!

This happen to anybody else?

No...I think it only happens to you!
You should send all your gear to me for your own good.....

welcome to the club,

all my mags, FHM, Maxim, Playboy, Sport Illustrated etc... are used for that purposes only.

Shouldn't this be in the "You know your photography crazy when..." thread?
LOL, and I tell my wife the same thing about all my magazines too! She thinks I'm lying but it's true! Angles, lighting....you name it! Never studied pictures at Nacho Momma before though.....

Aaagogo wrote in post #5807445
welcome to the club,

all my mags, FHM, Maxim, Playboy, Sport Illustrated etc... are used for that purposes only.

LOL, 'I like to reverse engineer the light....'

I feel better. At least it is not just me then!!!

I almost always try to reverse engineer a shot that I think was well done.
Thinking is "good" for you. At least that's what they tell me. Don't ask who "they" are.
-Bruce