I've been getting many different definitions or person opinions about what a studio REALLY is and what it has in it. Do you mind telling me or showing me what you personally believe a photography studio is?
i would have to agree. personally i think its stupid when people who dont even do photography or are a photographer start poking at you and saying that you dont have a studio. Yes, i dont have everything that i want in it, and i dont have the most expensive peices or back drops. I dont have 3 or 4 or 5 backdrops or 3 or 4 lights. but really? i dont need all of that! But guess what!? I'm 18 and dont have a regulare paying job and i make it work!! who cares if it doesn't have thousands and thousands of dollars into it. it still creates and allows me the capture great photos! Yes i would like more in it, but i work with what i have. >.< people annoy the crap out of me sometimes...
I have a teeny little 9x8 spare bedroom/prop room/studio. Some of it is painted in flat matte white, some 18% grey and the closet is flat matte black (aka the Closet of Doom); a housepainter friend did it for me as a housewarming gift! My 3 lights are mostly floods, one of which I made, and cost probably $20 total. My diffusers have ranged from ice-cream tubs to bits of floating floor, and the clips holding them in place are cheap bulldog clips from the dollar store. Occasionally I'll buy big swathes of fabric ends from Wallyworld or similar for use as backdrops.
So for stationary stuff, I'm good to go, but would need a strobe or two for more complex work. Generally I do ambient light work but also have a small lightbox so if a client REALLY wants *studio* lighting, they can get it :-)
I have to move the dining room table and hang my back drop there and I set the camera up in the kitchen lol. I only shoot myself and the kids there though. Would love a dedicated room or garage, maybe someday.
I bought some extra wide muslin which I dyed a dark gray/black, clip that on a background stand, and set that up in the kids playroom. It gives me enough space to stand back far enough to take shots. Throw in a couple of lights with daylight bulbs.
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
i would have to agree. personally i think its stupid when people who dont even do photography or are a photographer start poking at you and saying that you dont have a studio. Yes, i dont have everything that i want in it, and i dont have the most expensive peices or back drops. I dont have 3 or 4 or 5 backdrops or 3 or 4 lights. but really? i dont need all of that! But guess what!? I'm 18 and dont have a regulare paying job and i make it work!! who cares if it doesn't have thousands and thousands of dollars into it. it still creates and allows me the capture great photos! Yes i would like more in it, but i work with what i have. >.< people annoy the crap out of me sometimes...
ok... i'm done with my tiny rant...
As someone who works primarily on location and doesn't have a studio, I sometimes run into these same issues. The way I deal with it is I tell them that if you want X it'll cost you Y. If the customer wants 3 or 4 backdrops to choose from and I only have one, then guess what? I'll quote you a fee that includes the purchase or the rental of the 3 extra backdrops. Easy peasy.
Now if you don't have much equipment at all then maybe you should think about finding a local photographer who rents their studio out. Often studio photographers will rent not only their space but also their equipment and charge you a flat fee based on half a day or full day, which you can then pass on to the customer. I would also suggest finding a backup in case you find a studio but they are unavailable when you need to book the space.
whenever anyone ask me if i have a studio, i always reply, smiling, "the world is my studio!" (i have managed to accumulate all the necessary gear to manage a portable studio, though.)
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
R.
So how limiting is not having the full set of toys to what you shoot? How much is having the full studio a function of impressing a client and how much does it effect what you get in the camera? Is it as essential to have the full nine yards in the days of digital editing as it was in the days of film?
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
R.
So how limiting is not having the full set of toys to what you shoot? How much is having the full studio a function of impressing a client and how much does it effect what you get in the camera? Is it as essential to have the full nine yards in the days of digital editing as it was in the days of film?
Well... 2300 feet was overkill. We had a quarter of the top floor of an old industrial building that was being rehabbed by an architect client of ours, so it was a sweetheart deal. It was very convenient, and very efficient for working on multiple projects at once, but we could have made do just fine with less. "Impressing" clients was not an issue, but servicing them was. In other words, the "client space" was a working space, where they were able to spread out their sketches and comps, and so forth. This wasn't a real shiny environment, it was sort of post-industrial rustic...
Here I am in the space, before rehabbing, as shot by my then-assistant...
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
Well, my last studio was 2300 square feet. With a cyclorama. A client area. An office. Two darkrooms, a work area, a storage room, a library corner. A kitchen. 20-foot ceilings. But you don't want to hear about that, right?
LOL its ok bear :) i like that picture. it can tell a story. simple. idk... i like it though.
ANYWAYS.... lol I have two lights. one soft box. two umbrellas. one backdrop. backdrop stand. reflectors. couple other things. I would LOVE a bigger soft box and a couple other backdrops...
I,m actually doing some work on the house and part of that is having a little studio. I knocked out a wall and made it into one room the rooms werent been used so i thought i,d make it into something. Moneys a bit short right now so its on hold i just need too replace some floorboards and paint it all, same here sofia i have 2 lights 1 sofebox and 2 unbrellas and a backdrop i was think of attacting something on the ceiling so i wouldnt have too worry about changing backdrops all the time.
