We now have our home studio ready to play with. The dimensions make it just big enough to get a full length portrait in at 85mm which I'm happy about as I didn't want to go much wider to achieve it. Head and shoulders is not an issue.
Our mobile bench (The unit with drawers in) arrived today as well. We had this made by the guy who did our kitchen and bedroom as I couldn't find anything suitable on the web. The idea is that it can be wheeled into the middle of the room for any macro/still life type stuff and provide 360 degree access.
We are using the pocket wizard mini/flex for the wireless triggers and a Sekonic 478DR to meter and set the flash power remotely. We are using a couple of Nikon SB900 flashes in the softboxes and a couple of manual proline heads. As we get used to the pros and cons we can work out what we need to move to, although the gear is probably not the weakest link!!
We will probably use our D300 and D300s bodies (ISO is not an issue in the studio) unless we need lots of pixies in which case the D800 can come out. I would also like to run them tethered and I have an older version of Lightroom on a laptop which supports the D300 bodies but not the D800. As we are using our Adobe cloud licence downstairs I don't think we want to buy another.
Our mobile bench (The unit with drawers in) arrived today as well. We had this made by the guy who did our kitchen and bedroom as I couldn't find anything suitable on the web. The idea is that it can be wheeled into the middle of the room for any macro/still life type stuff and provide 360 degree access.
We are using the pocket wizard mini/flex for the wireless triggers and a Sekonic 478DR to meter and set the flash power remotely. We are using a couple of Nikon SB900 flashes in the softboxes and a couple of manual proline heads. As we get used to the pros and cons we can work out what we need to move to, although the gear is probably not the weakest link!!
We will probably use our D300 and D300s bodies (ISO is not an issue in the studio) unless we need lots of pixies in which case the D800 can come out. I would also like to run them tethered and I have an older version of Lightroom on a laptop which supports the D300 bodies but not the D800. As we are using our Adobe cloud licence downstairs I don't think we want to buy another.
