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Setting Up Your Digital Desktop Photography Studio

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After you have gotten home with your supplies, you now have to take time to put your furniture together. Unless you made specific arrangements with the store to put the desk together at the store and deliver it assembled, you will have to do this yourself. Now comes the fun part of setting up the studio. Here are the steps you will need to take to get the studio up and running:

• Organization: Now is the time to unpack your boxes and lay the materials out in front of you. Your desk will come with assembly instructions so just follow them closely. This may be the hardest part of the whole project. If you decided not to buy a desk but bought a large table or folding table, you may not need to put anything together. It depends on the furniture you bought and where you bought it. Make sure everything is in order and in a good place for you to reach for it. You need to organize all materials so each part that is used first is closer to you.
• Assemble the desk: With all materials in front of you, and the instructions by your side, put the desk together, making sure not to damage the wood if you have to use a hammer for any reason.
• Lamp installation: Now you have assembled the desk, your next step is to anchor the lamps. You may want to anchor your lamps on each side of the desk. This way the light is balanced across the desk. If you find that the desk does not have ledges to fasten the bottom of the lamp to (if the lamp is made with a clamp type base), you may need to go with a table instead. However, if your lamp is strictly a table top lamp, you just have to place it where you want it on the table or desk. In some cases, when anchoring lamps to a desk or table, you may need little blocks of wood for the clamp base to hold right.

Assemble the backdrop: The best way to start is by taking all the stretcher bars and putting them together in a frame. Then you need to tape the sheet of vellum to them. Then you put the gray poster board in place in front of the frame. Or you could put it inside the frame. It depends on the size of the frame and board and how you intend on setting up your studio. Some people place the board on the table and allow it to sweep up to give what looks like a seamless background. Here the lamp brackets come in handy, because the poster board could be inserted into the bracket before the lamp is officially secured. This way the poster board is secure and won’t wobble for move. To make the poster board sweep up, you may want to place two large cans behind the board. Those cans be anything as long as they are large. Paint cans have been used by others. So you may want to try using this as a way of propping up the board.

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