What I did this weekend
Discussion
Nothing that exciting I'm afraid, but I feel like I've achieved something 
My garage went from looking like this:
To looking like this:
The aim being to have a kind of home studio I can use to photograph unwitting fools. My first victim could of course only be the dog. A few out-takes as I tried to get a shot of him leaping to catch a bit of cheese:
So I decided just to take things in smaller steps, and get a few of him sitting still.
Lessons - lighting is very hard, I didn't want to rely on post processing as much as I have in these. More thought required here, as I want to avoid spending £££s on lights.
Need to paint the floor white as using a white sheet doesn't work well, too many shadows.
That's all, sorry it isn't more interesting.
My garage went from looking like this:
To looking like this:
The aim being to have a kind of home studio I can use to photograph unwitting fools. My first victim could of course only be the dog. A few out-takes as I tried to get a shot of him leaping to catch a bit of cheese:
So I decided just to take things in smaller steps, and get a few of him sitting still.
Lessons - lighting is very hard, I didn't want to rely on post processing as much as I have in these. More thought required here, as I want to avoid spending £££s on lights.
Need to paint the floor white as using a white sheet doesn't work well, too many shadows.
That's all, sorry it isn't more interesting.
Edited by _dobbo_ on Sunday 8th October 19:21
Thanks for the comments guys! I'm happy enough with them for a first attempt, more practice required though.
It's funny because there are 9 garages in the area to the rear of my house, and not one person keeps their car in there! I will in the event that I get a good enough motor, it doesn't seem worth the hassle of garaging the pug every night...
not a skill I possess I'm afraid, I got it done by a mate who is a plasterer, in exchange I'm going to photograph his kids and do him a bunch of prints. He paid well over a grand for 3 x 12" canvas prints from a Venture studio, so he feels he is getting a good deal.
I guess that makes me a fred in a shed now.
GetCarter said:
Very nice.
Where does the car go?
Where does the car go?
It's funny because there are 9 garages in the area to the rear of my house, and not one person keeps their car in there! I will in the event that I get a good enough motor, it doesn't seem worth the hassle of garaging the pug every night...
badbeachbuggy said:
Cool
Did you do all the pastering yourself?
Did you do all the pastering yourself?
not a skill I possess I'm afraid, I got it done by a mate who is a plasterer, in exchange I'm going to photograph his kids and do him a bunch of prints. He paid well over a grand for 3 x 12" canvas prints from a Venture studio, so he feels he is getting a good deal.
I guess that makes me a fred in a shed now.
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