Lesson Info
14. Live Shoot: DIY Home Business Photography
Lessons
Class Introduction
02:54 2Home Studio Space Considerations
15:19 3Recommended Gear
19:06 4Low Budget DIY Studio
06:45 5Camera Settings For Low Light
08:55 6Live Shoot: Low Ceiling
28:28 7Backdrop Considerations for DIY
12:00 8Build a DIY Backdrop Stand
12:42DIY Portrait Lighting
17:30 10Live Shoot; DIY Portraits
28:34 11Build a DIY Light Tent
20:17 12LiveShoot: DIY Product Photography Part 1
18:30 13Live Shoot: DIY Product Photography Part 2
13:45 14Live Shoot: DIY Home Business Photography
04:39 15Build a DIY Macro Lighting Tub
12:09 16Live Shoot: DIY Lighting Tub
10:46 17Live Shoot: Natural Lighting With Modifiers Part 1
21:12 18Live Shoot: Natural Lighting With Modifiers Part 2
09:21 19Build DIY Gobos
04:48 20Live Shoot: the Ultimate in DIY
21:11Lesson Info
Live Shoot: DIY Home Business Photography
Well let's move to our next area here. Just for grins and giggles, I'm just gonna quickly take a picture using the light tent and then I'm gonna move over to this bigger surface area here and show you how we would use that. Just cause I wanna prove to you. You probably already know this as you're watching, but light tent often times looks almost exactly the same as the do it yourself light tent. We need a nice base, so I need a white base. Again, local craft store to the rescue. I just have white paper. Cool. And I'm just gonna drop that here, so I don't get any color spillage. Here we go. Excellent. I am going to grab my backdrop. Move that one over. Here we go. And this light tent's a bit bigger, so I have to reach farther back. Okay, cool. Let's grab a Lego. I love Lego's. I hate to admit it because I'm an adult, but I love Lego's. Alright, so we have two little mini-figs. I got a fireman and a policewoman. They're gonna talk. They're gonna have a conversation. Hopefully they're not...
gonna fall over. Cool. Great. Just gonna turn this light over there. I think I've got enough extension to just move this over. If not, because it's a light tent it's really easy to work with. Hey, I've got a better idea. I'm just gonna move this one out of the way. You gotta be so careful when you move the do-it-yourself thing around that you don't like torque it, cause it will actually fall apart on you. Okay. Here we go. Mini-figs to the rescue. Gotta love our first responders. Great. I'm a pull this one over, get it nice and close again. Again, the only reason I'm really doing this is just to show that you don't need to spend the big bucks on these things to get professional results. Okay. A little bit lower. Just one other point I want to make with this light tent, sometimes it's actually nice to have this over the fork front. The reason why is because it prevents reflections from outside the tent from landing on your shiny surface products. So, let's say that you are photographing and you're wearing like a green shirt or a yellow shirt or an orange shirt, a lot of times the photographer, or even your hand, this happens to me all the time shooting shiny stuff, the reflection off of my hand causes a kind of a warm tint on the subject and it just looks bad. One of the advantages here, you just open the zipper up, and you shoot through that little segment. For now, I'm not worried about reflections or colors, so I'm just gonna shoot straight. I'm a straight shooter. And focus. I'm not using any magnification here, this is just straight with the lens. Okay, great. I think that was a little over exposed. There we go. So, our little Lego mini-figs, they perform well for us, and oh my goodness, don't they look nice? So, throw that up on Pinterest, and I'm sure you'll develop a following of 10,000 followers, just from that photo itself. Great. Alright, so the commercial level light tent and the DIY light tent about the same overall look. That's pretty cool.
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Ratings and Reviews
Jodz
I was so glad to see Mike! He taught my first DSLR class (Nikon D70 - then Nikon D300). I love his presentation style. It is so clear and he takes care of showing details that get in the way of actually 'doing it'. And I like the way he emphasizes good manners when dealing with a model. Well done Mike!
user-0ee681
I've watched this class a few times when it's been on-air and I realized I really need to just buy it. I find Mike so likable and engaging, and I love how he talks you through the shoot while experimenting. Sometimes the experts show you the perfect way to do it the first time but it leaves you not really able to troubleshoot when you are doing it yourself. I already own a lot of gear that his DIY equipment is emulating, but it's really artistically inspiring to see his creative approaches.
joanna
This course is fantastic! You don't need a lot of money to start a studio or go on location. Mike shows some great easy hacks anyone can use to create a studio and create professional photographs that will earn you the money to then purchase more pro equipment. I got some great ideas I'll be using on my next shoot!
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