studio work

Today I went to my mentor's garage to work in her studio for the first time.  I'd been wanting to give playing with studio lights a go. I don't think I'll be doing much studio work since it feels very restrictive, and by restrictive I mean boring, even so I know it will be wonderful to set up a studio at some point to do newborns and maternity. Dee's been wonderful at offering to train me and her other trainees any time she was available.  So I asked my friend if she would be good with driving out there with me so I could use Tiana to train with, I had to have a cute model to practice with right?  What I learned is that I need to spend time with my camera's manual because there are a butt load of settings I have no idea how to adjust.  I need to read a book on metering light and then knowing how to adjust my camera to that reading....oh yea, I need to buy a bunch of stuff.  Another book, a meter, 2 stobe lights, umbrellas, softbox, a gigantic roll of white paper, couple of pocket wizards, I think you are starting to smell what I'm stepping in.  I know that as a high key pic there shouldn't be any color to the white - so in post process I will try to play with that...maybe I'll post an after.