SETTING UP A BASIC-PHOTO-STUDIO

Digital Photography // CGMB594Nurul Nursyafina Binti Abd Razak

• The initial budget = RM20K• To buy basic equipment.• Setting up a simple photo studio can be extremely

beneficial to any photographer. Whether you're a professional portrait photographer or a graphic designer who needs product shots, a photo studio gives you a place to work, experiment and learn new things.

The main basics :

1. The room : The first thing to consider is obviously space. Ideally,you'll want something nice and spread out with plenty of room to move around after it gets filled with equipment.

2. Backdrops : Any good studio has a few backdrops to take photosagainst. It's probably a good idea to avoid cliche photographic backdrops like you'd expect to see at a shopping mall photo studio and instead opt for something simpler.

• 3. Lights : Lights are probably the most complicated and costly piece of the studio puzzle. There are essentially two primary choices for studio lighting.

o Continuous : Continuous lighting rigs tend to run cheaper butburn a lot hotter and aren't as versatile as flashes.

o Flash. With flashes you tend have much more power, increasedquality of light and a much wider range of possibilities.

The basic equipment. LIGHTING • Studio Flash Equipment Softbox Set 60 x 60 With 3m Stand RM220• Speedlight Flash RM 1,521.45• LED Light Lamps RM136• Filters Kit RM46.95• Strobe Light RM285.98• 7 in 1 Reflector Kit Foldable Collapsble Studio Reflector RM115• Universal Demb Diffuser Reflector for Speedlite RM39• Continuous Umbrella Lighting Kit + Muslin White RM675

Total = RM3,039.38

CAMERA//LENS• Canon EOS 60D kit II EF S18-135 IS RM4,799• Nikon AF 50mm f/1.4D RM1,155• Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G RM510

Total = RM6,464

BACKDROPS• Muslin Backdrops with Background Support Stand RM837• Universal DSLR Tripod RM249

Total = RM1,086

ACCESSORIES• Imac Apple with 5K retina display RM7,499• Computer desk RM950• Table and 4 chairs RM939

Total = RM9,388

• Overall the total is = RM19,977.38

Why we need to buy it?• Studio Flash Equipment Softbox : Use for adaptability. There’s nothing like a soft box when it

comes to providing soft light for any style of shooting. Fashion, food, product, portraiture, you name it. Even when they aren’t used as the key light source, soft boxes play an important role for fill, separation and edge lighting. It’s difficult to imagine photography without them.

• Speedlight Flash : It starts off with you needing more light in a given situation. Either you getting extremely grainy photos due to low light, or you are in need of a wider lens but can't afford the slower maximum aperture, or you are struggling to eliminate camera shake with slower shutter speeds.

• LED Light Lamps : With a digital camera, simply adjusting the setting for tungsten light corrects the excessive orange cast, introducing blue (with film, users would need to attach a blue conversion filter in front of the lens). But tungsten is less common these days, as people are eschewing them for lights that can help, theoretically, to reduce costs and our carbon footprint. That’s why so many different light bulbs with LEDs are available in the market today.

• Strobe Light : Is just like flash: it lights up when you trigger it and needs a bit of time recycle so that it can be fully powered for the next shot. You cannot see exactly how your scene will be captured until you trigger the flash. Once you do, a high-intensity light will pulse for just a fraction of a section, lighting the scene as you hopefully expected when you positioned - and set the specifications - for your lights.

• Reflectors : Reflectors can be used with natural light but also to help diffuse artificial light – including the flash of your camera if you have the ability to bounce it into them. If you really want to get advanced consider using more than one reflector in a photo shoot.

• Continuous Light : continuous light where you are able to fine tune the power/temperature of the light. The benefit from using continuous lights is you are able to see exactly where your light falls.

Why we need backdrops in photography?

• Stock a wide range of photography backdrops at very competitive prices for photographic and video studio use. Photography backdrops are ideal for general portraiture, group photography, product and industrial photography, pack shots and as a backdrop for stop frame animation.