Introduction
The Daguerreotype was the first photographic process that permitted people having their portraits taken, before this period portraits were only possible through the medium of art. Daguerre had made his invention public in 1839; by 1850 there were over 70 Daguerre studios within America alone. This was the first instance where studios were required for the medium of photography, just by looking at images from the studios back then to now, we’ll see how things have developed throughout the age of time.
Back then the studio appeared like a torture setup with all the gadgets required to keep the human as still as possible, these gadgets were required due to the lengthy exposure times. Now the modern day studio is far less intimidating even with a multitude of gadgets.
Why photographers use the studio
Here’s a full length article that I found interesting and answers all the questions to studio photography; http://photo.net/learn/studio/primer
During my research into studio practices I came across a project created by the photographer Peter Dicampo; Life without lights.
The project really had me thinking about the importance of light within photography, especially within the studio environment. Then we have Dicampo completely defeating the studio practice by utilising minimalistic lighting that he has no control over and producing an extremely powerful body of work.
My studio practice
Throughout these series of images I’m going to show the different equipment that was used and a few images I’ve created within the studio environment.
Beauty dish
Large softbox
Honeycomb
Barn doors
Throughout my studio practice I found that the following book really helped me understand what effects certain lighting setups will achieve and how the setups work; The portrait lighting referance, Peter Hince, 2011.
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