New home Studio with large skylight

[ndwgolf]

I’m in the process of building an extension onto my spare bedroom and making it into a gallery/studio.
The total area will be around 3.5m x 7m. I’ve got the builder to install a 2m x 1m skylight directly above where the model will be doing her thing (2.5m ceiling) but now I’m wondering if I should add some sort of diffusion material in the opening or just wait and see what happens after it all comes together?
I’ll take some better pictures of the whole setup tomorrow.

 

[sk66]

Aren't skylights hard to cover? You might not want light you can't control or place where you want it...

 

[ndwgolf]

Aren't skylights hard to cover? You might not want light you can't control or place where you want it...

It’s being covered with tempered glass. I’m hoping that that with it being north facing we won’t get any hard directional light, but I won’t know until it’s finished.

 

[Garry Edwards]

I'm sorry, but whether the light is hard and directional or not, it will be there, so unless you're going to do all of your photography in the middle of the night, it will create a large quantity of unwanted and uncontrolled light with variable colour temperature, so a major problem.

I don't see how a diffuser could help with that

 

[ndwgolf]

I'm sorry, but whether the light is hard and directional or not, it will be there, so unless you're going to do all of your photography in the middle of the night, it will create a large quantity of unwanted and uncontrolled light with variable colour temperature, so a major problem.

I don't see how a diffuser could help with that

Me too mate just read somewhere that skylights were the bees knees so decided to give it a go.............worst case scenario it will cost me a sheet of plasterboard, but before that I will finish the job and give it a go

 

[Garry Edwards]

Did you read that on the internet?

North-facing natural light was the bees knees once, starting in about 1840, when it was the only light available . . .

But ignore me, here in our community we have people who are passionate about ancient film cameras, large format cameras, the wet collodion process, sub-miniature cameras and all sorts of specialities, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Fill your boots, enjoy the process and learn from it

 

[ndwgolf]

Did you read that on the internet?

North-facing natural light was the bees knees once, starting in about 1840, when it was the only light available . . .

But ignore me, here in our community we have people who are passionate about ancient film cameras, large format cameras, the wet collodion process, sub-miniature cameras and all sorts of specialities, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Fill your boots, enjoy the process and learn from it

I feel like I first got into photography around that time and still have cuberds full of that stuff...............but there's one thing for sure it's going to be fun trying

 

[ndwgolf]

Getting there

 

[ndwgolf]

Okay 95% complete, There coming back tomorrow to correct the length of the window curtains, they need to do a little bit more touching up with the paint work, and I defiantly need to learn how to light this space.
My initial observations are
1/. The pictures on the wall need to go, when taking pictures of anyone sitting on the sofa
2/. The flowers on the left hand side corner need to go, my old view camera on the other side needs to go
3/. I have enough room to put backdrops up in front of the sofa to completely change the scenery and still get full length body shots with my Hasselblad 90mm (about 70mm full frame)
4/. The camera stand is the dogs ...........

As for the skylight I have already lined it with a delusion cloth, I have also ordered a motorised skylight blind to fit up inside that space (1.5m x 1m) to block out 100% of the light if necessary so hopefully I can play with that to get different kinds of lighting.
My new Camera stand arrived from China today and I am really chuffed with it, very sturdy and super easy to raise it up and down, I am tethering to Phocus in my Mac Book Air and mirroring that to a 43" TV for Fon to see how's she's doing........she loves it and works really well.
The last picture was shot utilising a 3 ft umbrella (as fill light) as we are in the middle of the rainy season here in Thailand so very overcast outside but still a bunch of ambient light coming in from the skylight

 

[cargo]

Wow your workers have done a lovely job of the space. Apologies I couldn’t comment on how good it is as a photo studio (as I’m not a professional) but judging my your images it's fab.

Good luck with it all.

Gaz

 

[Garry Edwards]

4/. The camera stand is the dogs ...........

As for the skylight I have already lined it with a delusion cloth, I have also ordered a motorised skylight blind to fit up inside that space (1.5m x 1m) to block out 100% of the light if necessary so hopefully I can play with that to get different kinds of lighting.
My new Camera stand arrived from China today and I am really chuffed with it, very sturdy and super easy to raise it up and down, I am tethering to Phocus in my Mac Book Air and mirroring that to a 43" TV for Fon to see how's she's doing........she loves it and works really well.

Well done!

I'm glad that I suggested a camera stand, far better in every way than any tripod in a studio setting.
I love your miss-spelling of diffusion cloth, it really does explain what these cloths don't do