Self Portrait

I'm traveling to Vegas in a couple months and I wanted to test out my travel lighting. Since I have portable power, I almost never use my speedlite. I would hate to arrive in Vegas unprepared, so I got out all my travel gear and ran some tests. The image below uses one flash with a silver umbrella and a self timer.

Now all I need is a light stand that will fit in my luggage and I'm ready to go. Of course, that is all I need. But I'm also getting a travel softbox because I love softboxes. I'm trying out the Cheetah Qbox 24. I'm looking forward to the challenge of using only a speedlight for all of my shoots. And maybe even some natural light - what a concept!

I'm impressed that I don't look my age in this shot. It's a combination of the lighting, narrow depth of field and the angle because there's very little post-processing done on this one.