t.k._liechty

I feel I must respond to Mr. Meyer. Be fully assured that this is an

imformational response and not an advisarial one.

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Ms. Kimbrell used the term "begining" studio. To me begining doesn't

imply full blown business. I could be wrong, I have been many times.

However I can say that all the jobs I have done over the las 20 years

the only impression that the client wants is what ends up on the

film. Indeed most have no idea what is state of the art equiptment.

After all low priced or high priced stands are in fact aluminum

tubing.

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My main flash is an old Honeywell 770 (that was included in the $35

Yashica camera) which bounced in the umbrella is f8 at 12 feet with

ASA 100 film. The other two flash units are old Sears which I use for

fill and background. The fill bounced is two stops under at 8 feet

and the background is covered with a three stop ND filter to make it

.5 stop over main.

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I know that the impressional aspect of the business is with other

photographers when involved in one-upmanship bull sessions. The

client wouldn't come to you if he knew all about photograhpy

equiptment.

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Mine works for me and is a beginning in studio work. I fullly expect

that it wouldn't be sutible for all. It is however an alternative to

high intrest loans and time wasted waiting to save enough to start.

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T.K. Liechty

Darlene,

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OK. I am a $2 man in a $5 world. Because of this I am also a MacGiver

kind of guy. The following is how I built my studio. First I read

everything I could find and filtered the most essential from it.

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I aquired three flash units, no not studio but what you slide on to

your camera. It's important to get the kind that have AC adapters. I

shopped Pawn shops, second hand stores, swap meets and yard sales to

aquire these units. I bought two of those little peanut slave units

at under $5 each.

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I bought two umberellas from a clearence store for $3 each and took

them apart for patterns and got white sheets a sewed them together

for white umbrellas (better if you can find white ones to begin with,

hard in my area). I then did the same with black sheets to use as a

removeable back for the umbrellas.

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I had some aluminum tubing, inch and a half diameter, and I conected

them to old office chair bottoms with the wheels for my stands.

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I bought a second hand Wien WP1000 flash meter for $60 and a Yashica

mat TLR for $35 at a swap meet. At the same meet I found a monopod

that has fold out legs for my background light.

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With this set up I have been able to learn much about lighting and I

can do some pretty impressive photos. Most of all I am having fun and

no serious out lay for equiptment. Little by little I can upgrade and

get better equiptment to make the job easier.

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So you can listen to everyone and still not know or you can jump in

with both feet and have fun and learn something.