Studio Strobes

So this week we were in the studio and it was the first time I used strobes. I was overwhelmed and had no idea where to begin or even what I wanted to do. I spent 2 weeks before that trying to come up with props and ideas. I had nothing. I felt as if everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
    I was lacking creativity.
    I didn't know where to begin.
    The strobe I was using kept getting set off by Marie's strobe.
    Finally my battery to my camera died.
It was not a very productive day to say the least.
However Joe Z. started helping me and I managed to get the beginning of silhouette lighting.
Here are 2 examples of silhouette lighting.    
     this one you lose detail in the dog.
 this one you are getting more detail in the red ear, as well as the over all quality of the dog.