This weekend while its raining outside I decided to photograph eggs. Not really an exciting subject I know, but I actually learned a lot from it. I have understood the basics of good lighting but I have felt like I was missing something.
My main goal for this was to better understand the inverse square law and how it affects a photograph. From what I had understood about the inverse square law and what I had seen in peoples videos explanations of it is that - for each doubling of distance that light travels its' fall off is about 75%. There is a great youtube video were Peter Hurley explains this that can be seen here. One of the other videos that I watched about it was by Joe Edelman and he was the one that talked about using the egg.
I started off in an extra room that I use a lot for photo stuff because I can leave stuff setup without it being in the way. I was using the YN-360 light that 
I quickly ran out of space so I moved to the garage and started using three eggs to better visualize the light fall off. Once I got through a round of this with the YN-360 I tried it again with a speed light and umbrella.
After I had finished with the photos in the garage I started to make some of 
