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If you are a pursuing professional photographer and are an expert in portrait, fashion, or product photography then the most important thing you need to excel in the following photography is a photo studio. But renting a photo studio for your use could be more expensive than you expect. So now what should we do to solve this problem?
Don’t worry about studios because you can build so many studios everywhere. In tiny rooms, in tiny houses, or anywhere you want.
You can manage to take amazing press shots for artist’s fashion photography, and portrait photography on a very tiny wall in your place and with a very low budget. You can have your photography studio in your home. Where you can work professionally. Shot with artists, fashion there
To encourage you to do your work and even professional work in your place or wherever you are at because you can make it happen and at the beginning, you will be very self-conscious because you will feel very shy to bring people at your place but in reality, what they care about is the quality of work you give them
So now you have a tiny place to shoot and all you need is what essentials you will need to set up your own photo studio.
The first thing is the Material of the backdrop
I don’t know which kind of photography you do but it doesn’t matter whether you do a portrait, fashion, or product photography
I will always recommend you to choose paper as your background because they are not like shiny materials. Other backgrounds can reflect the flash on it and you will not like that. You can use black paper or white paper as your background in your personal photo studio.
But if you don’t have the budget to buy then you don’t need any because if you have a white wall in your home you can do a lot of portrait work just on a white wall so you doing the backdrop. But if you do e-commerce shots as product photography nowadays is in demand so I recommend you to get one White and the black
There are normally two Sizes of background papers:
The standard one is for portrait and then there is a big one mostly used in bigger studios.
The bigger Chroma sheet will not fit in your compact photo studio. But you can use car-sized backdrops and this is an amazing option because you can just load it in your car and carry it anywhere. It’s like 2.008 meters perfect for your compact-size photo studio to fit this backdrop on your wall.
Now, what is it buying a backdrop stands for the paper because it’s more expensive even though for that I recommend you to get one of those backdrops stands from Manfrotto they are very good in quality as well as very easy to use because you can carry them around where ever you want because they have a pack so you can cover it and let’s say if you are shooting in outdoors or in another house, you’re going to be able to set up your studio on the go so you have a mobile studio
Now the Lightings
We all know the fact that it’s very expensive and I would recommend you all a very affordable and the newer Aputure lights or the godox lights as then you do have a good and bright continuous light for your videos and photoshoots, it works amazing and the quality you got is extraordinary. So you go for the following options.
The best suggestion from my side is you can rent out the lights and lenses for your photoshoots as they are cheaper than buying a whole light and second you got plenty of options if you rent out light as you can use different light if you don’t like or it doesn’t suit your shooting location or so.
I personally use rented Godox ad 400 pro from Gp rental store, you check out their products by going through their website gpcamerarental.com and rent it out easily.
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