Along the way...

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At some point, the system I was using, (Strobosol Mono Light with my Larson Starfish) was working well until my Strobosol died.  I had to find another light source that would hopefully take it's place.  At that time, Larson was still in business so if I picked up a different monolight, surely they would have a the correct bracket for it.  Got one, was happy until I left another studio I was working for and started my own business.  Then I didn't have space so used different types of light modifiers (umbrellas, reverse umbrellas, soft boxes, etc) for the time being.

Since my time was my own, I started experimenting with different types of light (primarily tungsten).  I purchased a set of Photogenic Mini Spots (we called them Indy Dinks) which ran me about $150 each.  They are now over $300 on Amazon.

I also used it with barn doors so I could control the direction & target the light on particular parts of the face or body.
 This allowed me to target parts of the body that I wanted illuminated



I used this lighting style when I wanted something artsy fartsy.  The Inky Dinks are 250 watt tungsten lights so thanks to digital capture I can change the color balance to the correct Kelvin temperature.

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