You can provide chairs for clients.
Photographers may focus on taking striking pictures but at the end of the day they must have the necessary equipment and lighting to get those photos to come out just right. Commercial studios provide those necessities but can be expensive to rent, lease or own. Homemade studios are much less expensive and much more convenient. They require only enough space for portraits, head shots and still life shots and often can fit neatly into a small room. Setting up a poor man's studio is not overly difficult and if the photographer already has necessary equipment, she can create a studio rather quickly.
Instructions
1. Select a room for your home studio that has white walls and fairly high ceilings, advises Scott Bourne on the Better Digital Photography website. White walls make it easier to work because they don't cast strange colors onto the pictures and they can brighten pictures that require a lot of light. The ceiling should be at least two feet higher than the tallest subject you plan to shoot, Bourne says.
2. Determine whether you will need a dressing room. If you do a lot of portraits, head shots or fashion shots, you may need an area close by for your models and clients to change clothes, touch up hair and makeup and wait while you work, Bourne says. Set up a place in the studio or nearby, such as a coffee room, a large bathroom or a large walk-in closet. Install flattering lighting and enough mirrors and hangers for your models and clients to change and touch up comfortably. Include a makeup table as well.
3. Set up your studio lighting. You may use strobe lights and if you have a window, purchase or make curtains or blinds so that you can use natural light when you want to, Bourne says. Position the lights and camera equipment so that they do not obstruct the picture or make the room so cluttered that clients cannot come in and out. Use equipment with wheels that you can easily move in and out of the room. Devote an empty wall in your studio to photo backdrops.
4. Set up storage space in or near your studio where you can keep equipment that would otherwise clutter the studio when you are not using it. Do not expose your studio to the elements via leaking roofs or faulty plumbing. Use surge protectors to prevent electrical surges from damaging your equipment.
5. Set up a work desk in your studio so that you can lay out photos and organize your work. If using a computer and printer, make sure that your desk is sturdy enough that it will not wobble or topple, causing your computer and printer to fall.
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