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.
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.
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!
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!!
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.
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) http://images.dpchallenge.com/images_portfolio/15000-19999/16648/800/Copyrighted_Image_Reuse_Prohibited_773177.jpg
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!
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.
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.
