A Mini Photography Studio

I dabbled in stock photography a few weeks ago and made a little studio. I ended up not really liking the idea of stock photos but having a mini studio is great practice. If you haven't learnt about three point lighting look it up and then practise it with a small studio, when you get good bring it full scale.

Practise Making your subject standout from the background. Along with three point lighting use different light temperatures for the foreground and background. Do some manual focusing as well, set your frame how you like it, zoom in and focus then zoom back out (don't move the camera body), the camera will keep its sharp focus.

My Setup

• Old chair
• Camera
• Flash
• Tripod
• 2 lamps
• Ceiling lights
• 2 black t-shirts
• Wood boards
• Extension cord

Cartman Pic

It literally cost me no money to make this studio, because I had everything. Use your imagination and be creative. When you know the basic rules of photography you don't need the best equipment. Because I was taking pictures of still objects I could use a low ISO (100), a high aperture (around 13), long shutter speeds and mirror lockup. The settings gave me, low noise, sharp images and minimal camera-shake. If you didn't understand that then learn basic photography theory so you can get the most out of your equipment.