Location Lighting - Week 3

Yesterday was Week 3 of my Location Lighting Class, and Greg, the instructor - featured in the photograph above -  gave some great tips on taking perfectly lighted portraits.  At the start of the class, everyone showed samples of their work, demonstrating techniques learned in last week's class.  Since I did not have a model to photograph,  I wound up taking a series of highly expressive self portraits and showed them to the class.  I personally thought they were pretty good, but I couldn't help but notice that after returning to class from a location shoot, everyone sat at least 4 or 5 seats away from me.  Hey guys, I'm creative, not crazy!  Right?  Right?