When I use my small office at home for a studio I shoot in a space that is about 9' wide, 14' long and 7.5' high. It has white walls, a white ceiling, and a light hardwood floor -- very reflective stuff. But I use strobes and it works just fine.
I use gridded softboxes, flags, and the inverse square law to control and shape the light so I can shoot low key portraits. I have also shot mid-key full-length people shots, but that works best if the subjects are short or if I shoot from higher up to avoid getting the ceiling in the shot. In my confined space I employ a 5' diameter softbox umbrella, two 5' strip lights, silver beauty dish, and gridded reflectors. I have had up to four strobes in use for one set. Your proposed space is not too small for strobes if you just use the right light control. It is well suited for seated head and shoulders portraits. There's even space for a hair light or two small rim lights, and the available depth makes thet even easier. If you ran tubes from side to side near the ceiling you could suspend lights from them using Manfrotto Superclamps or equivalent. Some shots from my office studio: http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/G0000BUyNRdnzMcU/I00002G2lo2dcFMg http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/G0000BUyNRdnzMcU/I0000TQTAEYbh7io Two strip lights, Westcott Apollo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/16981391245/in/datetaken/lightbox/ Five foot umbrella softbox with white diffusion. Rembrandt style. On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience shooting in long narrow rooms? > > I've been doing some work on my car trailer to get it prepped for an event > in a couple of weeks, and realized that it is basically an empty room that > might have some potential for portraiture. It's basically 20' long, a > little over 7' wide and about 7' high. > > On one hand, it's way too tight for using studio strobes. I might be able > to get away with speedlights. I also might be able to use LED bulbs in > clamplights as hot lights. I might also be able to bounce light off of one > wall for rembrandt lighting. > > I'll almost certainly be experimenting with it in the near future, but I > figure it's worth a chance learning from other people's mistakes. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
