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My name is Chris Ryan. I'm a photographer. We're here at my studio, Chris Ryan Photography,
in northwest Portland. If you'd like to see more of my work, please visit my website at
chrisryanphoto.com, or if you'd like to follow my daily activities, go to my Facebook page,
Chris Ryan Photography in Portland, Oregon. Today, I'm going to talk to you about studio
photography. How to create a makeshift studio for studio photography? Well, the first thing
you need are a couple of lights, you'll need a wall or a flat surface and ideally a roll
of white paper. You set things up a little bit differently depending on what you're doing-whether
it's product photography or portraiture, but those are the basics - you start with a couple
of lights, a white background and then you go from there. If it's a product that you're
shooting, then you create a tabletop surface, maybe attached to the white background to a wall
and have it sweep across the table, position the lights on the sides and a bit over your
product and then the lights bounces off of the back wall. If you're doing portraiture,
then of course you wouldn't have the table, you would just have the subject in front of
that white wall. Again, light them directionally. Different studios can be set up in different ways, but
the basics are a couple of lights, a blank wall and some creativity.