Re: Show us YOUR Studio
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Eric Schwab
Registered: Dec 26, 2007
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Country: United States

Sick cyc

DC Chavez wrote:
Here is mine....

ACTUALLY- its South Bay Studios in Long Beach... Huge, HUGE stages to shoot on...

Yep- that is me standing in the middle.

Thought I would share,

DC

Brent Ward
Registered: Jan 22, 2005
Total Posts: 3322
Country: United States

A bump on the thread and an update of my studio. Kitchen and client area is now done.

I shot the photos as if you were walking into the studio and then back out.

The view when you walk in the backdoor.

The view when you come out of the hallway.

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The client restroom.

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The view of the front door entry.

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View of the cyc.

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View into client area from studio door.

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View into hallway out of client area. That's the original firehouse phonebooth.

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Walking towards the backdoor.

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View of the building.

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Photo of the building in 1910 when it was built.

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Historical photos.

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garyroach
Registered: May 24, 2003
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Brent Ward wrote:
A bump on the thread and an update of my studio. Kitchen and client area is now done.

I shot the photos as if you were walking into the studio and then back out.

Excellent! Didn't you post some shots when you first started working on the space? I'll have to go back and look. Anyway, great looking studio. Thanks for including the old photos.

mmurph
Registered: Apr 18, 2004
Total Posts: 1962
Country: United States

Wow Brent, fantastic! I am very impressed!!

Are all of those guys lined up in uniform your assistants? Looks like you run a disciplined shop!

Best,
Michael

cathpah
Registered: Jan 28, 2006
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Country: United States

That is truly an AMAZING space you've created, Brent.

I'm both impressed and jealous....well done!

bugaglo
Registered: Mar 05, 2008
Total Posts: 125
Country: Canada

Impressive!

Deezie
Registered: Mar 07, 2005
Total Posts: 1020
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Brent - Wow... well done!!!

Brent Ward
Registered: Jan 22, 2005
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Country: United States

Thanks guys. It's been a long road getting here. Hopefully the back rooms will be finished in a couple of weeks. You enter those through the french doors in the hallway. I'll post more when it's done.

4honor
Registered: Sep 09, 2008
Total Posts: 1651
Country: United States

Wow Brent, that is really cool!

pmagrawal
Registered: Aug 02, 2006
Total Posts: 108
Country: United States

Thats just amazing Brent - where is this?

Brent Ward
Registered: Jan 22, 2005
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Thanks 4 honor.

It's located in Denver Pranjal.

Micky Bill
Registered: Nov 25, 2006
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Great place Brent, I always wanted to re-hab a Fire Station or a Church. Well done.
I knew a guy who redid a movie theater. It cost a fortune to level the floor!

Brent Ward
Registered: Jan 22, 2005
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Micky Bill wrote:
Great place Brent, I always wanted to re-hab a Fire Station or a Church. Well done.
I knew a guy who redid a movie theater. It cost a fortune to level the floor!

I can't believe it was even cost effective to level the floor!!

William Wilson
Registered: Apr 01, 2005
Total Posts: 533
Country: United Kingdom

Brent Ward wrote:
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View of the cyc.

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Brent what did you use on the floor of your cyc, I'm in the process of a revamp and looking for a white floor covering.

prof_fate
Registered: Dec 15, 2004
Total Posts: 5098
Country: United States

Over the winter I moved from the basement in my house to the detached garage and did a pretty complete makeover of the building.
Here's the outside last December (2008) about the time the drywall was done.

I started using it last summer to shoot seniors. One of my hobbies was working on cars, so it was a working garage with tools, oil stains, etc. This is a shot through the open garage door (the door still on the building in the above photo)

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Same view pretty much after I started moving back in. On the left you see the workbench (still there but now it's covered with a muslin). The pile of boxes in front of the workbench is the flooring for the sales room. This is presently the high key area - roll of seemless is used.

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Turn to your right and you get

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You can see the windows on the right that are in the front of the building. THe door leads to the sales room.

The shelving thing on the wheeled cart I found in the garage as shelves. Turns out it was acutally the original kitchen cabinets (there were 2 of them) turned backwards. I cleaned one up and hung it on the wall and it's now my cabinet for lenses, props, etc.

This is looking back at the garage door. I plan to replace the door later this year. Its being used now as my headshot area - i've got a number of fabric squares for BG, 2 kickers strip lights and a peters eyelighter. Works great.

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Here is a fisheye view of the sales room. I still need to get something to hide the projector wires. I couldn't get the furniture I wanted to pre-wiring the room ended up a waste, and a new projector needed to be closer to the screen. Oh well, nothing like remodeling a no-yet finsihed space! (baseboard needs to go in, but I can't be sawing inside and making dust and the weather is still crappy wet around here - rain at somepoint for 12 of the last 14 days)

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The air conditioning got installed last wednesday so the heavy lifting is done. I've got baseboards and trim to do and some outside work to finish up. All told It's been about $10,000 worth of work mostly done by me but some was farmed out, plus another $4000 maybe in outfitting the place (furniture, computer, wheeled stands, shelving, etc).
It's been worth every penny so far - wedding bookings are up, averages are up, I'm selling larger prints and canvases (sold 1 16x20 in 3 years till I got this space - sold 5 this year).

I keep telling myself I'll do nicer pics than these - these are just quickie P&S pics for the most part, but that means cleaning up and organizing everything -ha, not my specialty!

jamesburger
Registered: May 16, 2009
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I recently posted a short stop motion video to youtube that shows my studio in action.

intro-duck-tion provides a one-minute forty-eight second glimpse into my studio set-up and the creation of one of my most recent images. The stop-motion footage was shot entirely with still cameras and the music was made entirely by mouth.

I hope you enjoy it and it give you some insight about working in a very small space.

Enjoy "intro-duck-tion" on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OOSpUb7v8&fmt=18

or enjoy "intro-duck-tion" at http://www.jamesburger.com

garyroach
Registered: May 24, 2003
Total Posts: 1269
Country: United States

jamesburger wrote:
I recently posted a short stop motion video to youtube that shows my studio in action.

intro-duck-tion provides a one-minute forty-eight second glimpse into my studio set-up and the creation of one of my most recent images. The stop-motion footage was shot entirely with still cameras and the music was made entirely by mouth.

I hope you enjoy it and it give you some insight about working in a very small space.

Enjoy "intro-duck-tion" on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OOSpUb7v8&fmt=18

or enjoy "intro-duck-tion" at http://www.jamesburger.com

Very nice video, James.

Brent Ward
Registered: Jan 22, 2005
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Country: United States

William Wilson wrote:
Brent Ward wrote:
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View of the cyc.

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Brent what did you use on the floor of your cyc, I'm in the process of a revamp and looking for a white floor covering.

It's just painted white. I use Behr flat white. It's the best I've found.

William Wilson
Registered: Apr 01, 2005
Total Posts: 533
Country: United Kingdom

Thanks for the info Brent I went with a scuff proof floor paint.

hatch1921
Registered: May 13, 2005
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bump

markperez
Registered: Dec 11, 2004
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July bump

mattaddington
Registered: Sep 14, 2005
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Country: United States

Just nailing down the final negotiation details on my building. It's a 125 year old creamery in the Goodhue County, Minnesota ghost town of Nansen. It sits just off the Little Cannon River in Sogn Valley. Once the social hotspot of the valley and served as post office, general store, dance hall, and creamery.

I will post photos with progress. I am pretty pumped.

cathpah
Registered: Jan 28, 2006
Total Posts: 566
Country: United States

mattaddington wrote:
Just nailing down the final negotiation details on my building. It's a 125 year old creamery in the Goodhue County, Minnesota ghost town of Nansen. It sits just off the Little Cannon River in Sogn Valley. Once the social hotspot of the valley and served as post office, general store, dance hall, and creamery.

I will post photos with progress. I am pretty pumped.

wow...that sounds amazing.

still going to be able to find business in a ghost town though? Or is this spot close enough to a major town that you'll still be able to market the studio?

mattaddington
Registered: Sep 14, 2005
Total Posts: 69
Country: United States

Good questions!! Ghost town doesn't make it sound real promising, does it?!?!

It's within striking distance of some very cool, eclectic towns in the 15,000 pop range. And it's only about 35 minutes from south metro Twin Cities. Been a good area for me thus far without a brick and mortar studio.

sboerup
Registered: Oct 13, 2005
Total Posts: 5110
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I've been waiting many many years to finally get my studio. I found the right space, just moved in and slowly getting things organized. This thread has been a huge inspiration (more like a montly drool a couple years back) and I'm so very appreciative of everyone that has taken the time to post some quick shots of the studio.

Here's mine (a work in progress right now, but its close to completion).

Front waiting / gallery area, still missing pics and furniture, but its getting there.

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Sales / projection room. No pics up right now, there will plenty LARGE prints hanging in there, just haven't mounted them yet.

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