Studio – Ready to use
- At July 11, 2008
- By Neil Creek
- In Panorama
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Overhead) I’ll have to do something about that mould. It’s really obvious now the whole room is white :)
- Speakers and sub woofer, which I can connect to my laptop for music. I’d go insane working without music :)
- 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 :)
- 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!
- (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.
- 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:
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Galen Henseler
Wow very nice! When are we going to see some shots from the “spare room studio”?
Oleg Kurapov
It’s a very interesting project – I enjoy its DIY spirit and thank you for documenting the process in your blog and on Twitter. Also a good motivation to spend some time in my own studio, wink-wink!
Chrissy
The studio looks fantastic Neil, well done. It looks like you are inside a very enormous light tent there :)
Following your progress has inspired me and now Iv’e got all sorts of thoughts running through my head .. like which room in my house will I convert .. hehe
I’ll be referring back to these pics when I feel confident enough to set my own up.
Great job! Thanks for sharing ☺
Mandy
It’s been interesting to see the evolution of your spare room, sorry I mean studio!
I hope you continue to do this and show us some of it at work…
Susheel Chandradhas
Great Job! Looks like you’ve really put some thought and effort into this job. I’m sure it’ll go a long way.
Cheers!
Kathy
Great use of a spare room! What are the dimensions of this room? I’m anxious to see the photographic results of using your new studio!
jerry
Congrats man! Looks like you’re ready to go. I need to get my butt in gear now and get mine setup.
ramin
Just a hint on putting foam under the seamless. If you use paper and model has high heels, be careful that the foam isn’t to soft so that the heels don’t puncture it.
I wish this was my idea, but I just stumbled on it this last weekend in one of the several photography sites I visit. I think it was Digital Pro Talk…
Neil Creek
Thanks for the comments everyone! I’ve been meaning to measure the room, but I keep forgetting about it when I’m in there. I’ll try and do so soon.
For those interested, I just did my first portrait session in the studio today and it webt pretty well. You can read about it here: http://neil.creek.name/blog/2008/07/28/studio-shoot-with-the-fabulous-baker-girls/.