Brent Ward wrote:
didn't TJ Asher archive this thread into a pdf? I think I remember some doing it at least.
Edited by Brent Ward on May 24, 2006 at 09:02 PM GMT
Yes, I have the entire thread archived and have been keeping it up to date with all the current images saved.
I am missing a few of the photos from the first few pages however.
I have it broken up into smaller chunks of 10 pages each.
This is from when the FM software was serving up 10 posts per page. It has been serving up only 7 or 8 posts per page for a couple months now. I have been waiting to see if it gets put back before converting the rest of the pages to PDF so the page numbering scheme would stay consistent. It may not happen so I'll get around to converting the rest one of these days.
Others are welcome to mirror these to help spread the bandwidth.
Remember, these are based on the old page numbering scheme...
I just biult a 1200 sq ft biulding onmy property that was supposed to be a garage and is now a studio. I am finishing the insides and trying to determine what I need wiring wise etc before i close up the walls.
Like you set up indeed. I'm in the process of setting up a very similar sized studio but find getting the power setting very difficult. Do you use histograms or careful metering?
Marty D wrote:
Like you set up indeed. I'm in the process of setting up a very similar sized studio but find getting the power setting very difficult. Do you use histograms or careful metering?
Here are a few images of my current studio. I'm currently looking to move my business to a new space, as the building I am in isn't the best. But the studio and layout works well for what I do (people, commercial, products, etc). Its about 1600 sq ft (35'x45' ish), dressing area, two office cubicles, 16' ceiling with peaks at 21'.
Tall ceilings are a double edged sword. I use up to about 10-12' often, and on a couple occasions higher than 16' (since I had to move over to one of the 21' peak areas). Nice to have all that room above. The dark side is the electric and heating bills with all that volume 14' all around would be about perfect for me and cut the heating/cooling bills quite a bit.
BTW, there are a bunch of nice studio listed in this tread. Gives me lots of ideas for when I move.
Wow....between last night and today...I made it through all 198 pages....you guys are awesome.
I am just starting my research for studio stuff.
Couple quick questions. I thought I understood until I got about halfway through this post.
Softboxes are mounted to continuous lighting?
Strobes are mounted to umbrellas?
Fill lights are constant and will sometimes have diffusers or barn doors?
Sorry for the elemental questions...but It looks in some of the photos of the setups that the lights are all on. But I know they are using strobes.
I have never used anything other than my makeshift white sheets and halogen lights from sears.
The light modifiers are separate from the type of lighting source. You can mount softboxes, grids, diffusers, umbrellas, beauty dishes, etc, on either continous or stobe lights. They will act the same way on strobes or continous lighting. They are all just light modifiers to allow the photographer to shape and modify the light to their liking. You can make a safe assumption that anything you can put on one light source (strobe or continous), you can put on the other.
One caveat is that continous lighting generates a lot more heat than a strobe light, so if you put a softbox on the continous source the softbox needs to be able to handle the higher temps. You would need to buy a softbox that is intended for both strobe and continous lights, or made just for continous lights. You don't want to use a softbox made for strobes on a continous light as it probably wasn't designed for the higher temps and could burn. Same goes for all other light modifiers such as umbrellas, gels, flags, etc. You need to be cautious of the higher temperatures with anything attached or close in front of a continous light source.
What may be confusing you bsed on your second to the last paragraph is that strobes also have modeling lights which try to represent what you will see when the strobe fires. They are continous in nature, but are greatly overpowered when the strobe goes off so they don't effect the image at all. Thats why you see the lights on even though thy are using strobes. Think of the modeling lights on strobe systems as a small continous light giving you a 'preview' of how the subject will look once the strobes go off.
I use strobes, continous, and also mix strobe and continous lighting. You can get the same results with either, and in some cases one has properties you don't get from the other. So they all serve a creative purpose. I really like mixing strobe and continous and using the color difference to a creative advantage. So have fun with both. You can do a lot with a bed sheet and a home depot halogen light if you are creative.
Another consideration, although it is minor, is that hot lights often cause you subjects pupils to contract. Whereas, depending on how you set your modeling lights, with stobes your subjects pupils are more dialated.
So far, I haven't had to run the air conditioning.