Recent cutting-edge cosmological research indicates it is a theoretical impossibility to build a "big enough" studio within the confines of this physical universe.
Recent cutting-edge cosmological research indicates it is a theoretical impossibility to build a "big enough" studio within the confines of this physical universe.
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Here is the room I have to work with. It's 9' wide x 18' long.Originally Posted by Mark Sampson
The couch is gonna have to go.
What!?!!! "Fainting" couches were big in Victorian photography... ;-)The couch is gonna have to go.
Steve K
It looks like it'll work fine. My last studio was a bit smaller, and it didn't have any windows.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
You have plenty of space, although I envy you because my wife took away two rooms! I still have a serious darkroom setup in another building, but no more studio or display space. Tracks on the ceiling for movable things, sliding panels on wall, etc. My habit when trying to figure out the most efficient allocation of space is to get some gridded paper and start drawing in options. I used quick to set up and dismantle diffusers and fabric stands made of PVC pipe fittings, and suspended a round pipe from hooks in the ceiling for sake of big background paper rolls. I had a young couple on the way over for their portrait when the cat found the lower end of the roll just above the floor. As I was answering the doorbell, the cat was rapidly unrolling the background paper from above and spinning around a tunnel of it on the floor, then went wild shredding it from the inside of this fun little tunnel, which amounted to about half the volume of the roll by then! So just as I escorted the clients into the studio, I saw paper confetti everywhere. The lesson of that is, cats aren't good studio equipment. Now they've taken over completely, and I'm just the butler.
Kino-flos with diffusion, maybe. But bouncing off opposite walls or flats might be the simplest.
LED Litepanels?
You're in California. Open the window and shoot from outside. You should have plenty of room on the sides for your lighting. I'm not kidding here. I have a workspace (I dare not call it a studio) that is 1/2 of a 2-car garage. I regularly shoot from outside, even light from outside through the windows if there is not enough natural light.Here is the room I have to work with. It's 9' wide x 18' long.
I don't know exactly where he lives, but here where I happen to live in California, opening the window right now would let a lot of wildfire smoke and haze in. At least there would be no need for a Harrison & Harrison amber filter if one wanted that Godfather movie look with color film.
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