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01/04/2010 04:31:10 PM · #1
I plan to paint my studio walls and ceiling 18% grey (hoping they can match my grey card). Hoping to eliminate the need for some of my darker backdrops.

anyone else have a grey studio or walls?? I have lots of color gels that I never use, so hoping to have a chance to play with that more.
01/04/2010 05:04:06 PM · #2
The studio I work at has white walls & floor. We shoot high key, and then if we want softer looking photos we use a medium softbox alone. :) it gives a nice grey background. We also have a black background, but I never bother bringing it down since white and grey usually do the trick. :) I like the grey and we find most of the clients do as well, it's nice and soft.
01/04/2010 05:08:44 PM · #3
I'd go for white.
01/04/2010 05:10:51 PM · #4
Ya I'm with Spazmo, grey looks nice, but it's allot easier making a white wall grey with lighting then it is making a grey wall white. :)
01/04/2010 05:15:06 PM · #5
I went for 18% gray last year when I built out my studio, and I really regret that. It's not a disaster, but I'm going to redo the walls to something more interesting. I have a white paper roll that I use for white, and other colored & black muslin backgrounds for solid colors, but I'm going to change each wall to give a more or varied textured background; one will definitely be in stained concrete (if i can figure out how to do that easily), one in stripes, and one in sponged colors. I can't seem to find the muslin or canvases that I want, so I think it will be easiest to paint my own walls, and then buy more solid color muslins.

edited to add: I'm also going to change my ceiling color from white to something darker: my studio is too small to have so much bounce, and I always need to add nd filters to my lights, so I'm hoping to get rid of the accidental bounce off the white ceiling. I don't know if that's the right thing to do, but I'm sick of not being able to get rid of too much light.

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01/04/2010 06:03:46 PM · #6
LEave the ceiling and 2 or 3? walls(not sure what you have there) white and maybe paint one wall grey. That way if you need grey its there, Also it provides some option for change during a session. Leaving the ceiling white gives you a perfect bounce option (if thats what you do.)

Just a thought

01/04/2010 06:05:21 PM · #7
I took a small (8x9) spare bedroom and made it into a studio. I had a housepainter friend paint SOME of it 18% grey, the rest flat white and the closet pure matte black (around here it's called the Closet of Doom). Can send pics if you'd like to see how I had her paint it.
01/04/2010 08:36:30 PM · #8
The studio here at school is 18% grey.
01/04/2010 09:36:12 PM · #9
My studio has white walls and ceilings. I configured the windows so that I can completely block out all natural light and make the entire studio pitch black. That way I have control over all of the light hitting the subject and I don't have to worry about colored natural light mixing with my strobes.
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