Friday, February 4, 2011

The Photography Studio Window Coverings are Complete

My goal with this project was functionality, not beauty. I didn't bother to try to hide the liner behind the sheer fabric. Everything is uneven, but I'm just happy that I was able to use all my fabric and still get it to cover the windows and sliding glass doors. Because of the amount of fabric I had, and the dimensions I needed to cut creating a minimum number of seams, the windows ended up with less draping than the sliding glass doors. I looked for some neutral gray or silver fabric to sew around the edges as a border to allow more top to bottom coverage as well as side-to-side draping, but I was unable to find any fabric that would work with the one I already had.

Here's an example of what it looks like with both the sheer fabric and liners together, blocking out all the light...

Here are a couple of examples showing one side of the window having both the block out liner and fabric together and the other side of the window just having the sheer fabric covering...

You can see that the extra draping over the door lets in less light.  Since the rings on the rods are clip-ons, I can just rearrange the fabric how I want to let in more or less light through the sheer fabric.

Here are a couple of examples of one side of the window having both coverings pulled aside, letting in full light while leaving the sheer fabric over the other side of the window...


As you can see, there are a lot of options for lighting, especially when you add in the strobe lights, the reflective umbrella, the soft box, and the camera flash to the variations in natural lighting.