Studio room!

[Rigel]

hi guys, I want to make home studio and have few questions if anyone please help :) My main subjects will be bride&groom for half or full portraits, 70s style.

My room is 10x10 feet & roof 12 feet with one window.
Which lenses will I need ? my 50 1.4 cant take full. Or my room which I guess is smaller for the purpose

Also I plan to use alpha blue or green background & floor and later add both from ps, reason muslins too expensive. Am I in for a disaster ?

[SkipD]

In my opinion, a 10-ft by 10-ft room is totally impractical for a portrait studio.

You need at least six feet between the subject(s) and the background so that you can control shadows on the background and blur the background by having it somewhat out of focus. You also need room to support and light a background. Controlling the shadows on the background and getting the background evenly lit is especially important for a chromakey background (such as a "green screen").

You need at least six feet (and more is better) between the camera and the subject(s) in order to get a pleasing perspective. Getting too close to the subjects will cause your images to look un-natural. Noses will appear to be too large, etc.

You need room for your lighting equipment in front of and to the side(s) of the subject(s) and still have room for the camera and (probably) a tripod or other camera support).

[Mark_Cohran]

I tried this in my younger days and it just doesn't work for all the reasons Skip mentioned above. I would do this with anything less than a 10x20 room with a 12 foot ceiling.

Mark

[cdmonkey]

I agree with the other posts, but as with most people I imagine, having that amount of room is not always possible. I have been using similar to smaller size areas with ok results.
I dont get anywhere near the results that a lot of other people are getting but if thats all you have, thats all you have.
I cant imagine having much more space for years so im trying to figure out ways to use the space. shame there isnt more info about shooting in small places, bounced light is a real pain.
Big thing for me tho is i do it for fun, so I dont have to worry about getting pro results (although I try) I would have to do something about space if I wanted to take it more seriously.