For the lighting assignment, I spent an hour puttering about looking for interesting light sources for my little dinosaur friend here.  Here are my three favorite, but in addition to these, I tried candlelight (reflected off of his varnish and looked creepy and had an awful glare,) dimmed recessed lighting in my kitchen (okay, but gave the picture an ugly yellowish tinge)  and various angles with the flashlight.

Here's Mr. Dinosaur in my favorite type of light--natural light!  I love how pretty photos in natural lighting always come out, and how flattering soft natural light is to people.  As a bonus, it was raining when I took this, so the water droplets are a pretty cool element.

This second photo was taken in complete darkness (I focused the camera and then switched off the light and turned on the flash.)  The light was surprisingly bright.  I also just really like this angle of Mr. Dino's head.

 This last photo is my favorite.  It was taken with natural light coming in from the window on the opposite side of the room, no flash, and then I had my lovely assistant hold a flashlight pointing up near the bottom of the Dinosaur.  I think the spotlight effect and shadow is super cool in this one.