Did
I ever tell you how awesome my son Jason is? Not only has he grown up to be a great
bestower of gifts, he also has grown up to be one of the kindest, most thoughtful,
generous, and all around awesome man that I have ever met despite my parenting
skills!
Over the holidays he gifted me with two
professional studio lamps with light bulbs and diffusers.
Up
until now whenever I did my photography for my online classes or photos of my
art dolls I have used a make shift photo studio dependent upon how much light
is filtering in through my studio windows.
Originally
I used a grey mat-board to set behind whatever I was photographing in order to
have my photos focus on the art doll rather than what was behind it. Last year I broke down and bought some
professional photo studio background paper to use as a backdrop for my
photography. I tried to tape it to the
ceiling and the table I was using but it really didn’t work that well. I wound up ruining quite a bit of the paper
as a result.
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| curtain rod clips holding photo background paper |
If
you can see in the photo, Jason gave me the idea, to just attach some hooks to
the ceiling to hold a curtain rod for the paper. I used some curtain rod clips to clip the top
of the paper on which works really well.
In
order to get that curved consistent background for the photos I did wind up
taping down the bottom part of the paper to my table.
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| background paper held down with tape |
My
husband, Bob, brought me up some clips from his workshop to use instead of the
tape. I haven’t tried them yet but bet
they will work like a dream.
On
a really dark overcast day I tried to do some photography using the lights. Before having the lights I wouldn’t be able
to do any of my photography during overcast dark days, much less in the evening
hours.
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| Light with diffuser |
When I put the light on behind me
It was bright enough to get a suntan in the room but using the diffuser over
the light kept the subject of the photo from being washed out which is what
typically happened when I used room lights for my photos. So I tried to take some photos with one light
set up behind me while I worked on some photos for the Moulin Rouge class I
will be teaching at AFICC in Ohio this April.
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| light used as a reflector |
I took the second light and used it as a reflector to keep shadows at
bay while taking photos. It worked like
a dream!
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| Moulin Rouge Dancer by Marla L. Niederer |
Here are some pictures I took on an overcast day with my new photo studio set up.
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Moulin Rouge Dancer by Marla L. Niederer
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| Moulin Rouge Dancer by Marla L. NIederer |
Until
next time……….
warm
hugs,
Marla
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| Moulin Rouge Dancers by Marla L. Niederer |
P.S. You can sign up for my live Moulin Rouge
Dancers class at AFICC in Columbus, Ohio on April 25-28, 2019 by going to the
AFICC website here:
