Essential The Official Photography Thread

[Kamikaze Revy]

Just ordered this NAS for the studio.

QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure​

QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure

Buy QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure featuring 5 x 3.5" and 2 x 2.5" SATA Drive Bays, 2 x U.2 NVMe PCIe / SATA 2.5" Drive Bays, 2.2 GHz AMD Ryzen V1500B Quad-Core, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, 1 x 10GbE and 2 x 2.5GbE Ports, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and Type-A Ports, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, and JBOD...

www.bhphotovideo.com

Going from the GH5 to the RED, one of the big draw backs is the file sizes. I'm chewing through external drives like never before.
This NAS is expensive but in the long run it's less expensive than having a bunch of external and will be a huge workflow improvement.
All reviews I've seen and based on the specs, it should be capable of handling 2 people editing on 2 different computers from it at the same time too.

 

[shutterguy]

Just ordered this NAS for the studio.

QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure​

QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure

Buy QNAP TS-h973AX 9-Bay NAS Enclosure featuring 5 x 3.5" and 2 x 2.5" SATA Drive Bays, 2 x U.2 NVMe PCIe / SATA 2.5" Drive Bays, 2.2 GHz AMD Ryzen V1500B Quad-Core, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, 1 x 10GbE and 2 x 2.5GbE Ports, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and Type-A Ports, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, and JBOD...

www.bhphotovideo.com

Going from the GH5 to the RED, one of the big draw backs is the file sizes. I'm chewing through external drives like never before.
This NAS is expensive but in the long run it's less expensive than having a bunch of external and will be a huge workflow improvement.
All reviews I've seen and based on the specs, it should be capable of handling 2 people editing on 2 different computers from it at the same time too.

I have a Drobo 5C DAS and a Synology DS920+ NAS unit, game changer for me. Was buying and burning 100gb blu-rays, salesperson at Microcenter put me on to NAS units and it was wrap. NAS Harddrives have become ridiculously inexpensive lately, seen a Seagate Ironwolf NAS 14TB one for $279, literally half off.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I have a Drobo 5C DAS and a Synology DS920+ NAS unit, game changer for me. Was buying and burning 100gb blu-rays, salesperson at Microcenter put me on to NAS units and it was wrap. NAS Harddrives have become ridiculously inexpensive lately, seen a Seagate Ironwolf NAS 14TB one for $279, literally half off.

Yes sir!
I just copped 2 18TB Seagate Ironwolf Drives for $300 a piece, a 2TB SSD for cache, and a 1TB NVME the OS.
I plan on adding another 3 18TB drives little by little as I get a few more projects to roll in.
My big goal this year is to buy a company cargo van and a Mac Studio.
I'm a tetris master when it comes to loading up the car or the family van with gear but some of these cases are going to end up scratching the car or tearing the leather on the seats. I need something specifically for the company that doesn't interfere with the family vehicles at this point.

 

[MikelArteta]

anyone have or built a photo studio?

I'm getting a media room at our new church building and going to have a photo studio

 

[shutterguy]

anyone have or built a photo studio?

I'm getting a media room at our new church building and going to have a photo studio

Only thing I ever did was a home studio, 9 different colors of seamless 107" backdrop colors, backdrop support stands and rod, backdrop stands, 4' x 8' MDF board for false floor. Alien Bee strobes.

 

[MikelArteta]

Only thing I ever did was a home studio, 9 different colors of seamless 107" backdrop colors, backdrop support stands and rod, backdrop stands, 4' x 8' MDF board for false floor. Alien Bee strobes.

thanks breh going to start buying some of t hese

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

anyone have or built a photo studio?

I'm getting a media room at our new church building and going to have a photo studio

I own a studio.
Quality lights will change your life.

 

[MikelArteta]

I own a studio.
Quality lights will change your life.

What type of lights you have?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

What type of lights you have?

For photography…
2 Godox AD400 pro’s

For video…
3 Aputure 120d
2 Nanlite Forza 720
Nanlite Pavotube
Nanlite 60b

Different umbrellas, soft boxes, diffusers, bounces

Depending on your budget and current gear, 95% of the time I’d recommend investing most of it on lights. With great lighting and good composition you can give a dslr a run for its money with an iPhone. Not that it would be a replacement for a real photographer, just making a point that lighting is THAT crucial to a quality photo or video. It’ll make a much bigger different in the quality of your content over a new camera body.

 

[richtree]

anyone have or built a photo studio?

I'm getting a media room at our new church building and going to have a photo studio

looks like I'm going to have to visit church

 

[MikelArteta]

looks like I'm going to have to visit church

Man God is good, we went from services in a movie theater to renting a church in the evening, to renting another building and the landlord kicking us out to finding another place and finally we had enough. Brother in law sold his house downsized and bought a building renovated from scratch and we going all hi tech.

Since I'll be shooting all my weddings there I got that media room that i'ma pimp out as a studio for shots

 

[shutterguy]

@MikelArteta One of the last shoots I did at home below. Only issues is the paper gets dirty pretty easy from use. I had carpet at the time so that's where the MDF board came in to make a floor.

I used to rent a studio space from a friend when I needed, hard to beat with brick walls, big windows, 3 floors, and plenty of props.

 

[MikelArteta]

@MikelArteta One of the last shoots I did at home below. Only issues is the paper gets dirty pretty easy from use.

I used to rent a studio space from a friend when I needed, hard to beat with brink walls, big windows, 3 floors, and plenty of props.

This is dope

What lighting did you use for this?

 

[shutterguy]

This is dope

What lighting did you use for this?

Thanks, been using the same lights forever, 2 AlienBee B800's, combination of beauty dishes mostly, sometimes octaboxes. I did about 80% of my client model shoots at home.

 

[shutterguy]

Got the drone and ground camera out today. 33 degree temps off the lake ain't no joke!