Low-Key and High-Key lighting

Low-Key lighting - Low-key lighting is a styled of lighting for photography. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector. Low-key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector illuminates the shadow areas to control the contrast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-key_lighting

Hight-key lighting - High-key lighting simply refers to images that are mostly bright, with a range of light tone and whites and not very many blacks or mid-tones. In hight-key photography, tones that generally would have been mid-range become white ans white becomes, well,white. http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/3558/using-lighting-style-to-create-mood-high-key-and-low-key-lighting/

Studio Health and Safety 

• Make sure everyone in studio knows where everything is so chance of tripping up on equipment is reduced as photography take place in a dark room.
• Dont change bulbs.
• Make sure all cables and bags are out the way.  

Aperture and shutter speed 

Aperture: f2, f2.8, f4, f5.6, f8, f11, f16, f22, f32

Shutter speed: 1 sec, 1/2 sec, 1/4 sec, 1/8 sec, 1/15 sec, 1/30 sec, 1/60 sec, 1/125 sec