It's been a busy, busy, busy couple of months here at Morristowne, filled with awesome photo sessions and the very big step for us...a new studio! Up until now we have mostly been wedding photographers and the few portraits we did we either provided them on location with our portable studio or, if it worked out better for everyone, we also had a small home studio. A home studio has worked fine for us for the last couple of years, but it does have it's limitations.The first challenge of a home studio is just having enough room. We were set-up in a 12 ft. x 15 ft. x 8 ft. room that though adequate for one or two people, it could get very tricky with more bodies than that. And though 15 ft. length sounds nice, if you add a background and want to get your model a few feet away from it, all of a sudden your 8 to 10 feet away from your model, which for head shots isn't too bad, but for full body portraits it can get a little tough.
The second challenge is the limiting 8 ft. ceiling height. If your model raises their hands, you see your ceiling...if you want a shot from a little lower, you see the ceiling. You are always fighting that stinking ceiling! It's also so limiting on how high you can put your lights. If you use a 49" Octabox, which is one of our favs, the bottom can only be 4 ft. off the ground before the top is hitting the ceiling. Ok for some shots but again, very limiting.
The third thing is just the lack of professionalism it makes you feel like you're providing. Some of this may just be in our heads, but it just feels weird to have a paying client walk in, meet the dog, meet the kids, walk through our always under construction home, use our bathroom...you know, just a little weird. And as we've begun doing more and more portraits, something just needed to change.
So now we have a new photographic home at 25 1/2 Public Square in Nelsonville, OH. It is just a perfect space for us...15 ft. wide, 54 ft. long with 10 ft. ceilings. We've had it since November and have had several photoshoots there already, but have been just too busy to have time to really whip it into shape...but January looks like it might slow down enough for us to get a little work done and get some photos up on the walls, so January 28th is our target Grand Opening!!! If your in the neighborhood the 28th, please stop by, say hello, eat some cheese and crackers and take advantage of a free portrait session. We'll email you a copy of your photo that you can use however you may wish. Hope to see you then...
Jeffrey
P.S. The above photo was taken of Lou & Kate Elliott in the new studio...whooo hooo!
