If you work at home what does your workspace look like?  

I've been curious as to the conditions that my fellow contributors work in when working at home for sometime so I thought I'd pluck up the courage and ask.

Here is my work space at home (the kitchen table) with my wife working on her degree in the background.

My "studio" has been cobbled together over the last few months and is basic but I get some interesting results from it.

I wish I took a picture of it while I was still at home - luckily I/we have a 13x14ft room that is the official "Formal Livign Room" that I commondeared as my studio and put up background stands, saw-horses and a board, and my lights on stands. This is a shot I just took and quickly put together (badly, yes - it was quick - and that's MY wife playing WoW - it never ends!) - my camera would be from this POV directly facing the setup.

It was pretty tight, but I managed to be able to light and shoot a lot of product photography as I built enough clientelle to rent a warehouse space (I now have a 20x40 shooting space - VERY happy to have the room!). It's now our office (obviously) - I used to have 2 workstations t home, now I'm down to just 1.

I know it's pretty tight in your kitchen, but you've got enough space to shoot small to medium sized product (from jewelry to shoes) so keep going until you can "move out"! They'll never stop coming up with new jewelry designs, so find yourself some clients!
Good luck-
-Lew ;-)

@Mark! So that is where all the cool pictures of  diferent themes and abstract subjects been made. What all those rods and what a purpose of them? Probably they hold something.  Well, mine simple as it can be! Light box, tripod, lights. Hubby working on a difuse box at a moment to be able to make pictures of object lighten up from underneath. 

seeyus  Tunde

@Babuci - you can replace the paper that you're using as a base with tracing paper - make it a couple of layers thick if it seems to thin for you at first. Given that you're shooting through a glass table this should work fairly well.

Unless, or course, the base material I'm looking at in your above image is one of the side panels - in which case there's your light diffusion panel - put a light underneath and shoot away.

Good luck-
-Lew ;-)

I agree...ya got that glass table there, may as well use it. I have no special photo studio at home :( ... just my computer 'darkroom.' I will be naughty though and post a photo of my wife Lisa's art studio. I used to have a room to for myself, but then my daughter came along and.... ;')

Hello All,

It is interesting to see where you work and also given me a few ideas for my set up!  

Hello Tunde,

Yes thats where I do my work most of the time.  The rods are laboratory stands with clamps attached by bosses.  I work for a school and I bought them through the school!

Regards to you all

Mark

@Lew.....LOL lightbox on a glass table ...already have what I need. Sometimes we don't see what front of us.Thanx for that, saved a lot of money and nightmare to build one. 

seeya  Tunde

@Babuci - Hehe - yeah, very often I get caught up in "I need to get this" when my wife will be quick to point out "can't you use THAT?" ...oh yeah....

Went out and bought a whole bunch of clamps - my wife points pout we had a bag of clothspins...

Bought a couple of wide strips of muslin and asked my lovely wife if/when she could sew them together (because I can't even sew a button back onto a shirt!) to make one big white sheet - she reaches right into the linen closet and pulls out white bedsheets we don't use...

Oooookay... I'll look around the house more...
-Lew ;-)