Basic garage studio - how would you do it?
Discussion
Guys,
Been a while since I posted in here!
As my garage will probably never be used to store or build a car I've been thinking of alternative uses.
One I hit on was a basic portrait studio as we're a bit tight on space in the house, plus the wife likes to have studio photo's of the kids once a year, and quite frankly the prices people are charging for prints is getting ridiculous.
The only pre-requisit is that it still have to be accessible for my work bench, tools and storeage units etc.The garage is a single garage approx 2650w x 4500d x 2600h.
If I knock off 600 for storage along one side and 1000 off the back for my bench that gives me a working area of approx 2000w x 3500d - will this be enough?
As this will be on a budget I'll be using free standing lighting/flash along the line of THESE which a mate at work uses and seems to get pretty good results.
Current lighting in the garage is 2 x 58w fluorescent tubes - which are warm white, so will need to change those to a whiter light.
Should I overboard the walls and ceiling and paint them white?
For a backdrop I was going to use a continuous roll off a suspended pole.
What do yuo guys think?
I appreciate that this will be small scale, but should be OK for kids & portraits.
Am I missing anything (apart from more space!!)
Thanks
Chris
Been a while since I posted in here!
As my garage will probably never be used to store or build a car I've been thinking of alternative uses.
One I hit on was a basic portrait studio as we're a bit tight on space in the house, plus the wife likes to have studio photo's of the kids once a year, and quite frankly the prices people are charging for prints is getting ridiculous.
The only pre-requisit is that it still have to be accessible for my work bench, tools and storeage units etc.The garage is a single garage approx 2650w x 4500d x 2600h.
If I knock off 600 for storage along one side and 1000 off the back for my bench that gives me a working area of approx 2000w x 3500d - will this be enough?
As this will be on a budget I'll be using free standing lighting/flash along the line of THESE which a mate at work uses and seems to get pretty good results.
Current lighting in the garage is 2 x 58w fluorescent tubes - which are warm white, so will need to change those to a whiter light.
Should I overboard the walls and ceiling and paint them white?
For a backdrop I was going to use a continuous roll off a suspended pole.
What do yuo guys think?
I appreciate that this will be small scale, but should be OK for kids & portraits.
Am I missing anything (apart from more space!!)
Thanks
Chris
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