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These are just pics of the working area.  Nothing fancy.  Great productions don't necessarily need the best workbench or the newest tools or techniques

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This is my work area.  Its a simple round table with those vinyl picnic clothes you can find at Wal-Mart.  I ripped it in half: one-half taped to the table, the other half clipped to a tri-folding backdrop I made of cardboard and duct tape.  Whole set up was easy and works well.  This is during a construction phase so I have my cutting pad out, along with pictures hanging on the backdrop and plenty of cutting, drilling, puttying, and sanding accessories around.

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This is my setup for taking photographs of the models.  I use a few flood lights bouncing off some white foamcore to produce some indirect lighting.  I like GE Reveal lights (even though my digicam has a white balance).  They are like the photographing blue lights (that provide near sunlight conditions) but are considerable cheaper and last longer.  I don't touch up my photos on any software for fear of screwing them up any further.  I shoot with a Canon S40.  Great all around camera but macro function could be better.  I shoot on a mini flexible tripod, no flash, custom white balance, macro function on, with a two second timer (to avoid shaking).  I drape a medium size piece of construction paper (that coordinates with the models color scheme) behind the model to provide a seamless background.