Hi Raymond.. I have a spare living room that I use as my Green Screen room as my main focus is videography.
My brother in law lives just a few doors away and he has moved most of his photography "Studio" gear in to the room so we have a wide array of lighting equipment, both flash and continuous.. but I try to use continuous only as that's how I work to perfect my lighting technique for my video's... He uses flashes, from 3, 4 and 5 light set ups using mainly Paul C Buff Einstein Flashes. He has found flashes with modelling lights allow for far more hits than misses as you can see what you are going to get when positioning, shaping and feathering the lights... kinds of why I love continuous lights
In terms of lighting set up, we really don't have a set up, we have around 8 different size softboxes from strip to regular size. We have grids, large and small beauty dishes and loads of video lights from LED's to Fresnels etc.. Something we are both very conscious of is not having our lights in one place, they are all on casters so they can be moved around to create different looks...we dont want to make the mistake of having our lights set and every photo is loop lighting... there are so many studios that have been doing that for years and the result of that is, the same shot over and over again..
My shots were set using dedo lights through diffusion, and a Arri 300 fresnel on the background, utilising the barn doors to creating shape, depth and dimension on the backdrop...
I have what can only be described as 11-12 ft "vinyl roller blinds" that roll out on to the floor for seamless backdrops. I have White, Black and Green for green screening. I also have a frame that I hang pieces of material over. I try to purchase fabrics with beautiful texture ( we are both massive fans of the work of Frank Dorhoff and low key lighting techniques, I prefer that kind of mood ) We can swap the fabrics quickly and create different looks. I'm just in the process of building a ply frame so we can bull dog clip the fabrics and move the frame to create different angles, we can then have the models use them more interactively... like lean and press against etc.. Re-reading this it sounds like I'm rich, I'm definitely not. The room is not that big but we try to utilise the space as best we can!!
Sorry for the long explanation... but I hope it answered your question.
I'll post some of the work he has been doing over the last few months..
Love your wedding photography by the way, you have captured some beautiful images..
