| Often a beginning professional photographer must | | | | should be kept free as possible for lights and |
| do with a single large space to set up a new | | | | equipment. Walls should be painted in a bone white |
| portrait studio. It must contain a reception and | | | | for use as a reflective surface with bounce |
| display area, a dressing room, an office, and of | | | | lighting. The posing area may be carpeted with a |
| course, a camera room.The camera room must | | | | loop type rug in a neutral solid color. The area |
| be able to accommodate large families, various | | | | used by the camera stand should be covered in |
| groups and the typical wedding party with bride | | | | cushioned tile or linoleum for easy rolling. Ideally, |
| and groom. These demands require a background | | | | pulleys can be installed on the ceiling for raising and |
| wall of at least sixteen feet wide for a group | | | | lowering muslin type backgrounds. It takes but a |
| portrait without wall shadows. The background | | | | few minutes to attach two corners of a muslin |
| wall can be covered with floor to ceiling drapes of | | | | and raise it to the ceiling and stretching it out to |
| a solid color in a muted shade. Colors that have | | | | the edge of the rug. Several muslins can be |
| worked well in the past are gray/green, light gray, | | | | stored in bags for easy access.The reception and |
| blue/gray and wine red. The drapes should part in | | | | display area can utilize low couches and a cocktail |
| the middle to expose most of the back wall which | | | | table for showing albums. One area can be |
| will be artistically painted in tones of brown, gray, | | | | reserved for a computer terminal for displaying |
| and beige with accents of apple green and rose | | | | poses and another desk for taking orders and |
| red. The drapes should extend six feet along the | | | | making reservations. Only sixteen by twenty and |
| left and right walls for extremely large groups. A | | | | larger portraits should be displayed on the walls. |
| curved bracket will eliminate the corner. If a rear | | | | Smaller sizes for selling purposes can be displayed |
| exit exists in the back wall, a false wall can be | | | | on the desks.The dressing room should |
| built with a door to the extreme side for rear | | | | incorporate a lighted mirror and dressing table with |
| access. This door will be hidden by the drapes and | | | | bench, hooks and hangers for clothing and a small |
| the area behind the wall can be utilized for | | | | lavatory. The office can double as a room for |
| frames, ready orders and back up | | | | computer work, ordering supplies and customer |
| equipment.Since the camera lens sweeps a | | | | calling. Your new efficient studio will be a pleasure |
| triangular area, the dead spot to the left can be | | | | to work in making for a happy photographer and |
| utilized for an office and the area to the right, a | | | | satisfied customers. [In progress - Articles, Digital |
| dressing room. Props can be stored on shelves | | | | Art, poetry, Original sheet music.] Comments |
| along the wall and hung from the ceiling. The floor | | | | welcome. |