Portrait studio

It has been decided that for WR3 we are to run a portrait studio. This obviously will take a lot of planning and so as a group we have been preparing some of the work towards the end of this semester.
Last week we sat down and made a plan of action where everyone was given a task to complete. This ranged from poster design which was my role, to contacting photographers and organising phone lines and contact details.
Everyone will get the opportunity to cover different roles within the business from assisting, administration and also being the photographer. In order to ensure that the quality of the images are maintained to a certain standard there are also some other things that we need to consider.

Hopefully after our first few customers word of mouth will help to promote the business. People who have visited the studio are likely to show family and friends the work that we have produced. If one of these people then decided that they wanted to visit the studio they would expect something of a similar nature. As we are going to be on rotation with different jobs, it may mean that the person with the photographers role will not necessarily be the person who took the pictures they saw.

Every photographer has their own style and way of shooting however to run this business successfully and allow each person to fulfil a different role some rules and guidelines. This will help to ensure that the quality and style of the images produced by the company are the same. This is something that Venture had done successfully. They have studio spaces and photographers all over the UK and successfully promote a certain "feel" within their photography.

To ensure that we can do this, we are going to set the studio lighting and backgrounds up in a specified way. Softboxes, hard heads and reflectors will be placed in the same spot (which will be marked out on the floor) for all portraits. The same college camera will also be used to ensure consistency in the work that the studio produces.