Studio – Ready to use

Previously, you have seen me cleaning out and painting our spare room in preparation for turning it into a small home studio. Well that day has come! The studio (the name “spare room” is not allowed any more ;) ) has been completed to the point where it’s ready to go for taking photos!

Feed readers will need to visit the main entry to see the panorama above. Alternatively, the static version can be seen on Flickr.

I’ve labelled the panorama with a few highlighted features:

1. I used a really cool trick I found here, with a paint roller extension pole and a plunger head to safely hang the backdrop without damaging the rental property. See below for more.
2. Reflector cards, perspex sheet, black card. I’d like to find a nicer way to store these rather than leaning them against the wall, but this will do for now.
3. A very handy cupboard, into which I put a small set of drawers, to keep all my photo gear safe and out of the way.
4. (Overhead) I’ll have to do something about that mould. It’s really obvious now the whole room is white :)
5. Speakers and sub woofer, which I can connect to my laptop for music. I’d go insane working without music :)
6. This trestle table is WAY too big for this room. I have to put it against this wall to keep enough room for shooting portraits, but here I can’t open both the cupboard and room door at the same time. Hopefully going to Ikea this weekend :)
7. A granite tile I found tossed out for hard rubbish collection. No idea if it will be a suitable base for photography, but I won’t know ’till I try. Plus, it was free!
8. (Down below) The huge backdrop is too long and too wide for the room. That’s ok tho, I’ll just fold it under. I need to get some foam matting to go under the sheet tho, as it’s dangerously slippery with a sheet on a polished wood floor.
9. A conveniently placed power point, but I’ll need to get some secure cable tidy hooks or something so I can lead power across the room to the laptop and speakers etc.

And here’s a close up of the plunger/pole: