FBJ is owning this tread as of late

Nice shot of the mantissesesessi.
So in a splurge, I purchased my first studio strobe, an
Alien Bees B800, stand, 60" shoot through umbrella, and a couple of the ebay radio slaves. This will compliment my 580ex which I have done the PC port mod on so I can use it with the radio slaves. I was really leaning toward going all the
Strobist route and making my whole lighting kit with all hot shoe flashes, but I have found I don't travel around much with my flashes and most of the time when I need them I know I have to set up the whole kit anyway, so I opted for the bigger flash which will let me light the bigger umbrella.
Getting into lighting feels like a very slippery slope, when I was first starting, it was all about scrounging money for the next lens, now I find myself thinking about the next light modifier.
I'll let you guys know how the Alien Bee does, they are supposed to be pretty good for the very low cost, the biggest strike I see against it is it only has 5 stops of power adjustment (so only down to 1/32 power), hopefully that won't kill me.