Black & white portraits: Katie and Jackson

Thanks to Sam, I have a nice little kit of lights in my apartment at the moment! I'm improvising a backdrop with one of my dropcloths and I've been taking some portraits, experimenting with different setups. I've done a set of Katie and a set of Jackson and here are a couple of my favorites: Let's also add that I'm completely Photoshop-less right now, so these are pretty much entirely unedited--and the conversion to black & white was the heavy-handed Picasa way instead of the nuanced Adobe Camera RAW HSL way. I'm going to redo some of these when that gets resolved.