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Im moving into the new house on Thursday next week. Exciting stuff and I have literally tons of things to do to make sure my business downtime is as low as possible...

How do you sort out broadband without having a phoneline....


anyways, I need to pain the office/studio walls. Its around 22ft by 13ft and I want to have a paper roll and so on which will be in the same room as the office.

My first thought was to has a neutral grey that I can burn to white but im wondering if that would be too dull for an office.

Any thoughts?
 
Neutral grey is actually quite dark, and if you want to use it as your office wall, you'll find it pretty dark in the room. I wouldn't recommend it. Stick to the normal bright white or magnolia for the wall, and stick the paper background for shoots on one end of the room.
 
Man I'm envious, I've been wanting to get a place big enough for a studio but not yet there (wife needs a year at uni). I agree about going for the white/light clean walls, if you are getting clients in then some photos of your work at good sizes using different media (acrylic, canvas etc, whatever you want to offer) that's a great way to make more/larger sales as they will want to have great art on their walls.

I would be tempted to have a couple of rolls available, one black, one white to give options or styles. Looking forward to hearing how it turns out.
 
Thanks guys, I agree im thinking white walls would be the best idea. Currently its got red walls up there which wont last long.

Im going to get paper rolls and try and mount a 3 roll system on the end wall. Need to make sure how much width I have because the stairs come up on one side. Im really hoping that it will fit 2.75m rolls there.

The plan is to have grey, white, black and then some other colours like charcoal, coffee, cappachino etc.

There is a small 8x10 foot room off to the side which will house equipment and a changing room for models. I'll have to fit a work desk, couch and coffee table in there as well but there should be enough room I think.

What i'd also like to do is mount the background lights onto the ceiling, as long as its not too low and they get in the way.

As soon as I move in on thursday and get the internet running i'll make a post and start doing some updates. Although that might take a few days, either that or i'll post from the iphone and 3g...
 
White is probably the best choice from a clean/light/airy viewpoint but by far the worst colour choice as far as creative lighting is concerned.
White walls will bounce light everywhere, destroying creative control, and the ceiling is even worse when you have the standard low ceilings of an ordinary house.

My advice is to paint the ceiling matt black, and paint the walls either neutral grey or black too. Too dark and depressing for your clients? Then paint the walls white but have black drapes that you can pull over when required..

Loads of different coloured paper rolls for the background? Maybe, but you'll probably find that some don't get used much, if at all, so it may make sense to get just white and grey to start with. You can do a great deal with just those two.
 
I was thinking Dulux clouded pearl 4 as a main colour for the walls as its not pure white but still light enough not to make it depressing.

Ive done a lot with white backgrounds before so I doubt i'd do much with it but its a stable bg.
 
90% of the time you'll probably want them white :o)

If you use V flats then white walls are less of a problem.
Or you could have white walls and use black curtains/sheets to cover them if you want to control the bounce.


Only problem is the ceiling .... ;)
 
Well, in the process of packing this office and house up as we move tomorrow. Ive been at it all day and it looks no better. I guess I should pack up the PC and move to laptop...
 
Im painting my walls white with the ability to cover with a black background sheet if needs be. Figured id use white more than any other colour.
My ceiling is 12' so got no worries there :)
 
I painted mine white and it works well for normal family/baby portraits as I think the light bouncing around helps lift the shadows.

However I tried a more dramatic type shot the other day (just for my own entertainment) of my son sitting on a seat blowing bubbles, rim lit. It just wasn't happening at all. You will definitely need to have some way of putting something dark over the walls if you want to try anything different, as others have said.

H x
 
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