Sitting Room-To-Studio - Photography - Strobist

[crispycritterz]

When you live on coffee and Red Bull, you develop the metabolism of a humming bird, but look at how fast you can move.

[TomHallPhotography]

That was great.

[robsmithnikon]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking the time to post it up.

[heavenguy]

when I turned my living room into a studio my wife was so mad... She was like "it took me all day to keep the living room clean and now u done it again"... So I do it again, and again, and again... and again...

[heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyism]

Do Like the BIRD."Proudly located in central downtown studio parking. lol Models waiting in the queue to get in and speak with ME ME ME Birdie" Then post a million zillion testimonials about yourself and your grandchildren and bribe wannabe models with free BIRDIE pictures for BIRDIE Favors. hint hint .Now hang out in shout boxes or chat rooms talking about yourself all day and say anything for attention

[heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyism]

Thats the way to do it. Been there done that. NOW if the gold diggers and haters from wannabe model web site could only see this and learn that one does not need a expensive studio or store front with huge overhead. I truly wish all of them wanbbe models all the best and feel special with Birdie ME ME Me Photographers working from a dieing city 12 story building. You know best baby.

[rubent100]

Can you explain how the light meter works? Am i supposed to meter the brighter area in the room? For example you mention you meter the window area. Then after i get the reading what do i do? I have Alien Bee Strobes how do i adjust these to the correct reading. I always hear bring down flash to a certain F-stop but how? Sorry im new to all this.

[fantasticskeetskeet]

hey thanks for posting this vid, I'm a memphian semi-pro photog, great lighting.

[amableodiable]

an its not artistic, it just seems wrong.

[amableodiable]

The horizon is going down in some photos, that's not the right way to present a photograph.

[finn3rs1993]

Well as he said toolfan68 its a house not a studio, i think the end results are great. he isnt going for artistic photos just simple family shots.

[angelernestoprado]

Fabulous, funny, educational and...tax free!

[ToolFan68]

No offense but this a amatuer level photography.

[bigsmooth71]

Nice video.Thanks for taking us behind the scenes it is very helpful to us new photographers who trying to understand the whole concept.

[HillClimbersForum]

i dont know, that window light could have been used in a much better way imho instead of underexposing it like that.

[anthonyshealy]

Nice work, i'm from Memphis now living in atlanta ga.

[CraziestOzzy]

Great share!!!

I am different for location, I don't move the furniture :))

[WiZeR911]

I hope they didn't pay for those photos ?

[gilbot3030]

i thought it was so funny to see them put the baby down, i tought it was a lazy cat hahaha!

[dombower]

very well done!

[Syltibob]

Really great photos, man! Nice video but awful music, hehe.

Good job!

[johndoesuriname]

nice i love the photos, a bit commercial but with a personal touch

[ayshasan]

I love it!

The pictures turned out like a commercial ad, well done!

[Drobek6]

To all those negative to this, isn´t photography up to one self, i dont like to bend to any certain laws of photography. Its up to one self how the pictures gonna be. I can understand if people criticise bad images, i don´t really see that here. So what if the pictures are taken indoor, we didnt see the final pictures.

Sorry, if all this didn´t make any sense, i am danish and its 12:40 and night :D

[arbecklepra]

excelente

[marathonspirit]

I was tryin to keep count of how many flashes you had goin on, and did I count two or three?

I think the pics are awesome, and i loved it! Nice use of space :D.

[kingskid96]

that was tooo cool. thanks for the posting!

[lauderdaleflorida]

Very good, thank You for sharing it...

[RDraGon2179]

What was your apeture set on. I know that the light from the window would of made the camera meter read wrong. I see using the flash and black reflector made softer lighting in the room.

[fisherparagon]

Aperture was at f3.5. As far as metering goes... I got the right exposure first in manual mode by metering the window, and adjusting shutter speed. Then I added in the flashes. Flash being an instantaneous light source is not affected by shutter speed what-so-ever up to 1/250th of a second. After that it either goes away, or in the case of high-speed-sync, it just diminishes in power. Other than that, it's just like any other studio setup.

[johnxstone]

Does your camera function whilst level?

[caamelaihan]

not impressive shots mate!!

[AndyBJ]

I don't mean to sound negative but I would have to agree with Caamelaihan and johnxstone. The shots look unnatural and the compositions were odd. I think you may have had much more luck with an outdoor shoot using mainly natural light and keeping the set up simpler, if anything they look a bit old fashioned. Very intresting vid though - no personal offence intended it is just my opinion, and photography being an art form is all subjective of course. I'm sure people see them differently.

[bravotwozero20]

Pro in work! Amazing!

[rockwriter]

Gerat job.

[pbaarn]

Well done