Chuck Gardner's excellent lighting tutorials

Chuck Gardner is a regular on DPreview.com's lighting forum and has spent countless hours helping beginners learn how to get started in studio lighting. He has compiled an excellent collection of his tutorials and postings:

http://super.nova.org/DPR/

Jay Andriot: Basic Portrait Lighting

This is an excellent webpage with a fairly complete set of basic lighting schemes. It was compiled from a set of online forum postings by Roland Pallagi. There are many examples of classic portrait lighting using a mannequin head (Miss Gurdy) for consistency.

http://www.rpallagi.hu/Articles/BPL/BPL.htm

There is a LOT of very good information here.

Kickstarting

This space will contain personal discoveries and links to useful equipment and technique discussions that I've stumbled across in online forums. At present time, I'm most interested in lighting techniques and getting more familiar with my lighting setup.