How to build your own home photography studio: Tips and tricks for creating the perfect workspace

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens is in Houston helping fellow photographer Melvyn McKiever build a home photo studio. Morgan immediately goes to work identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses of the room Melvyn wants to convert. If you're building your own home studio, you will want at least some of the walls to be a flat white. You can use the walls in a room to bounce and reflect light, so it's important they're white so that you aren't contaminating your light with different colors, such as a warm or cool tone.

Sometimes the white walls are too much, however. So you will want to have a black curtain you can hang over your walls as well, for times when you don't want light bouncing around the room. Melvyn's room has carpet, which can be an issue when doing full body portraits. An easy fix without having to tear up the carpet is putting down pieces of plywood, which you can then cover with your seamless backdrop. To learn more about building a home studio, watch the video below.

Readers, do any of you have your own home studios? If so, please let us know more about your studio in the comments below. If you have any tips for fellow readers looking to build or improve their own home studio, share those as well.

(Via The Slanted Lens)