Cheap and Easy Photography Studio

This is my second video and my first time editing. I wanted to show others how I used to take quality photos of my costumes at home by myself for years. I set up a very cheap and easy photo studio in a spare bedroom using items I had in my house. I am going to show you how to do the same! No more camera phone pictures in the mirror!

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[mediamaker2000]

Very nice video! You have some other videos that are quite entertaining too! As for lighting, If you put the lights closer and use dimmable bulbs and dimmers to add some depth to the photos. Use 3 lights instead of 4. Without some soft shadows on your face, you won't have any depth, it will just be flat, 2 dimensional looking. Lastly, if you can use smaller bulb but put them closer and put some sort of diffuser material in front of them to make the light softer, you will get softer shadows.

[StarWarsChick01]

@mediamaker2000 Thank you so much for all the great ideas!!!

[gordontarpley]

If you're using those clamp lights, those reveal bulbs are good but you can get some fluorescent photography bulbs from adorama or B&H for about $6 bucks each. They're WAY bright and the light is really clean and white. The white balance matches daylight.

[StarWarsChick01]

@gordontarpley That's fantastic! Thanks so much for the tip!

[HerrHannibal]

Great vid!

[StarWarsChick01]

@HerrHannibal Thank you!

[JustoShow]

Amazing

[StarWarsChick01]

@wuher That is wonderful advice!  Thank you for sharing! I never did use a light behind me for any of my pictures but now I want to try it to see how it looks!

[wuher]

Good video. If you stand further away from your background, you can light the background as well as the subject and the shadows disappear. In 3-point lighting, you'll have a light to one side of the camera pointing at the subject, a light behind the subject haloing the subjects head and shoulders directly across from the light to one side of the camera, and a light half way between them to fill the split. Though, more and more, the third light is being eliminated in photography.

[StarWarsChick01]

@codebreaker2001 Could you come clean mine then? ;)