Aug 12
DIY studio
I’ve never been much for studio and still-life photography. Just couldn’t see the point. The charm with nature photography is to actually be out there in the nature. But lately I’ve started wondering if I should try to explore new aspects of photography so I decided to build a mock studio to see if I can create something new. It’s a total DIY job, I’m certainly not going to spend thousands of SEK on something I won’t use (I’ve already got a closet full of stuff I don’t use!). The cost so far is 130 SEK and you’d keel over laughing if you saw it, but it works! Sort of… I still need to invest in better lighting (160 SEK) and some backgrounds, but we are not talking about any brand names here.
I can see the potential and this would certainly be something to do during those long dark winter evenings. Now I just have to find some bits and bobs to shoot in my DIY studio…
Nice! How did you do it? Let me guess:
1. White cardboard on the table, (it also could be bent upwards to form a neat background same time?)
2. Glass plate on top of it
3. White cardboard as a background
4. Lightning, hmm. Could be north window -lightning through some diffuser or with two lamps, dunno
1 and 4, almost.
The “table” is a cardboard box with an A3 glossy paper on top of it, bent upwards for BG (the paper by the way is courtesy of the job, every employee got these really hi quality wall calendars and I decided to rip the pages off mine to make some good use of them… got enough cals as it is).
Lighting is provided by two lamps diffused through a white nylon sheet suspended on a small tent frame - so a light tent, quite literally! The lamps are normal table lamps for the time being, but next week I will get two 150W spotlights.
Cheap cheap cheap… but as long as it works, who cares?