What equipment do I need to buy to build a studio?

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Studio is of course very necessary for lighting portrait photography. But the studio can be big or small. From the perspective of enterprise management, the scale and decoration grade of the photo studio are one aspect that affects tourists. The first thing customers come into contact with is the appearance of your shop and your works. In this sense, as long as you have enough money, a spacious studio, exquisite decoration, luxurious layout and even several studios, a novel three-dimensional background is necessary. But this requires a lot of investment, so if your career is short-lived, you need to accumulate more capital, or you don't plan to spend more money on the size of the studio, then you should consider building a practical and simple studio, as long as the area is enough and the lighting is not affected, you can install a common background. Any studio can take portraits. In this case, it is more important to show your exquisite portrait photography to customers as much as possible than to show luxury storefronts.

When creating a portrait studio, we should mainly consider its size and equipment.

The area of the studio

There are three factors that affect the necessary depth of field in the studio: 1, the focal length of the lens used; 2. Portrait of the scene; 3. The distance between the subject and the background. Considering that many photographers use 35mm SLR cameras and similar digital cameras to shoot, the lens focal lengths listed in the table below are all represented by 35mm cameras. Portrait scenes refer to close-up portraits, busts or full-length portraits with shoulders on the head. The distance between subject and background refers to the interval between subject and background. If you want to avoid the projection of the subject on the background, or use light in the opposite direction to the camera, there must be enough distance between the subject and the background.

In items A and B in the table below, add the selected figures to get the minimum depth distance of the studio:

Suitable equipment

The choice of camera depends on your own needs. Generally, portrait photos under 24 inches are taken with a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, and the quality can be guaranteed. If you want to take larger portrait photos, you should use 120 single-lens reflex camera. As for the focal length of the camera lens, wide-angle lenses are rarely used unless you want to shoot tall real scenes in the photography room. When shooting full-length portraits, standard lenses are generally used (for example, 35 mm camera is about 50 mm, 6×6 camera is about 80 mm, and 6×7 camera is about 90 mm). Medium-focus lenses (such as 100 mm for a 35 mm camera, 150 mm for a 6×6 camera and 180 mm for a 6×7 camera) are often used to shoot portraits with chest circumference and shoulders. If shooting with an ordinary digital camera, it is generally equipped with a zoom lens of18-55mm (about 28-80mm for a 35mm traditional camera) or17-85mm (about 27- 135mm for a 35mm traditional camera).

In order to ensure the clarity of the image, the camera bracket should take stability as the primary consideration. The special "T" bracket can fix several cameras on it at the same time and install lenses with different focal lengths, which is convenient for shooting portraits in different scenes. If there is no such bracket, you can also use an ordinary tripod, but the tripod must be stable. It not only ensures the clarity of the image, but also helps to prevent the camera from being accidentally tripped. There should be a tripod on the camera bracket, which is convenient for Huo Ling to adjust the viewing angle.

The seamless landing background is made of wide background paper or background cloth with different sizes and lengths, and stands on a bracket that can be moved or fixed on the wall. When it is unfolded, it can cover the floor of the studio at the same time, so when it is used to shoot a full-length portrait, the seam between the wall and the floor of the studio will not be exposed, which is a widely used equipment in many photography studios. This kind of background, there are monochrome flat painting, monochrome gradient (color gradually transitions from dark to bright), and it is also drawn with different pictures. The lifting of the background can be operated electrically or manually. It can be rolled up for storage when not in use, which is very convenient.

The types and performance characteristics of different lamps in lighting studio have been discussed in an article "Lighting Equipment" (published in February 2005) in this column, so I won't repeat them here. Equipped with a photography studio, generally speaking, there must be at least 5 lighting lamps. The illumination of the subject usually needs two lamps or Three Lamps District area, and the light in the opposite direction of the camera needs one lamp (the power can be lower). One or two lights are needed for background lighting. This is a very economical configuration, and it is of course better to have a spare light.

Although the reflector is an auxiliary lighting equipment, its function can not be ignored. Using a reflector in the photography room can gently reflect the light projected by the lamp to the shadow of the subject. Adjusting the brightness of the shadow part can show the necessary level of detail and make up for the shortage of lamps. There are many kinds of materials for making reflector, the most commonly used is aluminum foil (commonly known as "silver paper"), and white foam plastic board can also be used. Aluminum foil has high reflectivity, which is more convenient if it is installed on a bracket with adjustable pitch angle. The light reflected by foam plastic board is weaker than that of aluminum foil reflector, but softer.

Lighting paper has a variety of colors and shades, marked with numbers, and covered on the lamp holder can change the color of the light for color lighting. There are also white lighting papers of various textures and thicknesses to soften the light. High-quality lighting paper is made of nylon film, which is strong and durable, but the price is higher, and it can also be replaced by transparent colored cellophane.

Exposure meter is a device for measuring light intensity and helping to realize correct exposure. To measure electronic flash, we should use "illuminance exposure meter" (also called "incident exposure meter") to measure the total illuminance of all lights facing the camera at the position as close as possible to the subject; When shooting under continuous illumination, you should use a "brightness exposure meter" (also known as a "reflective exposure meter") to measure the reflected brightness near the face of the subject, based on the exposure of the face. You can also measure the brightness of other objects (such as wedding dresses, props, backgrounds, etc. ), so as to accurately control the lighting effect.

The dressing room and dressing room can be separated from the photo studio. You can also open it in the corner of the studio. The small photo studio depicted in the illustration in this paper is decorated with small workshops with different uses.

Props use movable props in the photography room, such as Roman columns, sculptures, flowers, chairs, etc. , can give the subject a certain plot, make its movements, gestures and expressions more natural, and can also increase the spatial change of the picture and optimize the composition, which is very valuable.

The ceiling guide rail device is a device for hanging lighting equipment on the ceiling of a studio. The suspended ceiling rail, also called suspended ceiling movable bracket, is composed of fixed rail, movable rail, pulley and movable suspender, and is installed on the suspended ceiling. The lighting lamp and the wire are connected by movable suspenders, which saves ground space. With this device, the photographer can easily move the lamp up and down, front, back, left and right when distributing light, which is not only convenient to use, but also can avoid the trouble caused by too many lamp stands and wires on the ground.