Much of the lighting I do is very much direct lighting; softboxen and other play-it-safe modifiers have their place, but you couldn't emulate, say, Karsh's styl

Much of the lighting I do is very much direct lighting; softboxen and other play-it-safe modifiers have their place, but you couldn't emulate, say, Karsh's style with them. And the inverse-square law is your friend, not your enemy. Light is merely a tool to get the shadows in the right places.