Gold Coast Photo Studio Hire Pro Tips

Studio Photography Space

Shooting in a dedicated photographic studio can be a great experience and opens all sorts of creative possibilities. Photo studio hire allows you to shoot in a pro studio without worrying about the constant running costs and maintenance.

The studio compromises of a large studio space including a lounge area, comfortable hair and makeup stations, photography studio, and kitchen. Inside the studio includes a white background with the option of backdrops. Creative Focus Studios also provides an extensive range of high quality photographic equipment for hire and provides a unique range of props to use while in the studio.

But even before you start shooting there are a few things that you should consider setting yourself up for success.

Visualise Your Shoot

Visualise each stage of your photo shoot. Get your camera out of your bag. Set up your triggers. Set up your lighting stands, flash units, backgrounds and props.

Brief the models and stylists. Visualising your way through your photoshoot means you’ll have a much better chance of being organised for the day.

Clients love a cool, calm, and collected photographer. Nobody likes someone searching frantically through their camera bag muttering, “My camera was in here”.

Have a Photo Shot List

Once you’re in the flow of a shoot, it can be easy to forget that key shot the client asked for. Doesn’t matter if you have delivered a great set off images that are full of energy, compositions are great, the colours are fantastic. If that one shot that the client was really after is missing.

The last thing you want to have to do is to have to call the client and tell them you missed something and need to book another day of photo studio hire. So have a photo shot list.

Prepared Wardrobe

Figuring out what to wear. Here’s the thing, clothes your client love son a normal basis may not photograph well (and on the flip side, a shirt that seems normal or boring in everyday life might look fantastic in a photo).

When it comes to picking out clothes for a shoot, make sure they dress the part (i.e. how they would normally dress for the occasion you’re shooting for). Avoid logos or distracting patterns on clothing. Less is more. A natural polished look is really the best way forward.

Communicate With Your Model 

Take time to connect with your model, you will achieve better photos. If you are distant and non-communicative, your model will not respond so well in a photoshoot.

Talk to your model before the photo session. If you do know your model, ask them what they want to achieve from the photoshoot and share with them what you want. Working together in this way you will have more ideas to work with.

Model poses do not always come instinctively to people. A model will pose more naturally if they trust you and know what you want to achieve. Communicate clearly with them what you want. If they don’t understand your ideas or if it isn’t working, try explaining yourself more clearly or move on to something else. Don’t get held up to much on the one pose.

Also your model may have some ideas for poses. Listen to their suggestions and try them, especially if they are having trouble relaxing in the photoshoot. Photographing them in poses they have suggested will help them become more comfortable, which in the end can achieve better results.

Don’t Be On Time. Be Early

It’s great to be on time for your shoot. You arrive at the photography studio at 8am as agreed, but your client arrives 10 minutes early. They’ve been waiting around, and you end up feeling unprofessional and on the back foot. So arrive early. There’s always something you can be doing to fill in the time. Check your memory cards and batteries (again). Run through your shot list (again).

Test Your Lights

Test your lighting set up before the shoot. Some pro photographers even book an extra day of photo studio hire ahead of the shoot. They make the time to go through the technicalities of the set up in relative peace and quiet. So on the day of the shoot, when the client, the agency rep, the stylist, the models, the hair and makeup teams, and their associated friends, family, and the office labradoodle arrive, they already have their set up nailed.

So the message is quite simple, always plan ahead. Be organised. And remember that much of the hard work in creating great images happens before you even set foot in a photography studio or press the camera shutter.