>>296158What the fuck are you not understanding?
That turtwig setup is the basic textbook one light headshot.
It is basically the first thing you learn in the Strobist workshop, the OneLight workshop, the Lighting Essentials workshop or any studio lighting classes in photography school.
One strobe directly next to the subject and a reflector on the other side. You adjust the look of the backdrop by moving the backdrop closer and further away from the subject.
When you take the reflector off the strobe, the backdrop ends up getting direct, bare-bulb lighting, and the camera is prone to lens flare or chromab from the bare bulb. When you have the reflector on the strobe, the backdrop only gets indirect light that is *gasp* feathered. You want a darker backdrop, move the backdrop, but you don't move the strobe dumbass.
http://flickr.com/groups/one_strobe_pony/http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/04/lighting-101-headshot-in-corner.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQmWPAcaKUFYI, I leave my reflectors on, but not because of any of the reasons in this thread, rather, because it protects the bulb on location.
