So we want to choose our studio location and a couple of questions that we're going to want to answer. Is it temporary or permanent? What do we mean by that? Is this going to be a temporary space where you set the studio up? Maybe over a weekend and do some shoots on a weekend? Or is it permanent?

What size studio you're going to need things like wall colors, and set up a layout. All these are very important. And we're going to show you now with some 3d animation, how to set a studio up and some of the things you're going to want to include in that studio to get the best results from a home based studio. So here we have a 3d model of a studio. As you can see, we can see all the angles, but before we let's just discuss the permanent versus 10 Pre. Now a permanent studio is always better.

So if you've got a room you're not using or guaranteed you can convert, that's the best place to Surface Studio. You can of course set up on a temporary basis and you get quite efficient about that. There's just so much easier if you've got a permanent space. But if you haven't got a permanent space, then just start with what you've got. And then maybe over time, you can rent out a small space on a timeshare basis. Now you don't need a huge base but there are some size recommendations I would make from own personal experience.

If you can, you can manage Believe it or not, you can manage in an eight foot studio but it gets really difficult when it comes to width. 12 foot is going to be your best whip length. You want 18 foot The longer you can have the longer focal length you can use less can be better for your portraiture because you're going to remove distance torsion and if you want to do full lamps shots, you need that lamp for that studio to allow you to use 50 millimetres and above height, ideally, nine foot and above. Because when someone's wearing glasses, you're going to want to get those lights high so they're not reflecting. This is a workable size 12 foot wide, 18 foot deep nine foot high. Now you can do it in a smaller space.

And it is can be very challenging, but I would recommend you start with this size. But just to encourage you my space that I use, and I use it as a video production studio as well as photography studio, which I'm using right now. That space is eight foot wide by eight foot high and 18 foot long. But you can see I've not got a very big space, but what I'm recommending here is a space that's going to allow you to put stems in and allow you to move around Now wall colors, you're going to see I've got some interesting things on the wall and the ceiling. Whenever you're in a small space and you're bouncing light around in a studio, what's going to happen is if you've got white walls, the lights gonna bounce and come back onto your subject. So what we need to do in a small studio is we need to darken the walls, and we need to darken the ceiling and also possibly the floor.

Well, that will mean is that light when it hits the black walls or the ceiling or the floor, the black will absorb the light and it won't bounce back in interfere of our lighting. And that's one of the most important things you can do. Now fortunately, in my studio, for instance, I've got some material I've mounted on some brackets on the ceiling, so it doesn't have to be permanent. And what I've shown in this studio is two large panels that can be removed later in my studio. I've actually which is a guarantee of actually painted the walls black and I've got black soft liner on the floor. Now when your studio floor hard floors are better, but because I use my for video as well, I've got some liner and it's a little bit softer than most photography studios will have.

And the reason you have hard studios or floors in a studio is that when the ladies come in with their high heels and they tend to come in their high heels when they won't have their photography done, that your floor is not gonna get dented and ruined. It's gotta be hard wearing, but we want to have dark floors as much as possible to control that light. So as you can see in this studio, we've got a simple, free light setup. We're going to be carrying more into the standard setups that you can use and that is basically a design. Now this is available As a PDF in the course. So you can take the dimensions here and map it out.

Now the software I'm using is called satellite 3d Studios, you can see that will actually if you buy the full version, there's two versions, if you buy the full version, what you'll find is you can actually create custom rooms. So you could put the dimensions of your room in and figure out what the lights are gonna fit, be able to shoot at different focal lengths on your camera, all those sorts of things really, really powerful software that I'm using here to create this course, you can actually use to build your own studio. So in this example, this is a full length shot, we're using a full frame camera shooting at 50 millimeter, and we're getting a full length and our subject is probably about five foot eight inches. This will actually then allow you to see the dimensions that you're going to have To use, and as you can see, there's an 80 foot room and a 50 millimeter with a full length shot with her not too close to the background that shadows shining on it.

You can see there's not a lot of room left and that's at 50 millimeter and 50 millimeter we'll talk about later why it's important for portraits 50 millimeter and above, but we'll come back to that in a nother lecture. But this is the studio space, we're going to be using to teach you in the course how to set up your student how to do some of the lighting. So this is the size we've decided on as we recommend a minimal optimum, like I said, you can give go below that. You're gonna be fighting a lot with room for your light reflectors, and your umbrellas.