I always love seeing your work. Well done.

I was gonna save this one for the end of my vid, but WTH....
for a 6 foot wide or smaller roll, the easiest, cheapest fastest set up you are gonna find is to set the roll on the floor, and pull it up and use Painters tape (green or blue, guaranteed not to peel off paint or leave a residue) to tape the end to the wall....
It amazes me how many times, on location I hear somebody say "I never thought of THAT".

and since I already spoiled the spoiler, here is the last set up:
If you already use bifold doors, as reflectors/striplights, it isn't hard to put two nails in the top of the doors near the center, and use a pair of bifold doors as a backdrop stand...
just rest your cross bar (conduit pipe) between the nails on each set of bifold doors...

that is one of the other ways... then there is yet one more easy DYI...

simplest is two large plastic coated hooks and a piece of conduit pipe. (which I just filmed in my studio build series.)..

then there is the brackets and rods you suggest..

then there are two more... so I think we have a winner for an episode, as I already got it half shot...
Will post a link monday on this for sure.

free standing or built in?

Hi guys,

I'm still looking for questions and suggestions on how I can use my new studio to create and blog videos that would interest my fellow Pentaxians..

yep. it is nice to know you got options..... that actually swayed me from buyin a k5.... the battery options.. my flashes, ds2 and kr all share batteries...

you should have no trouble getting that replaced.

you got any friends that do machinist work out of thier garage?
and fwiw, the model may be completely, officially discontinued, but there is a good chance the column from a newer tripod will fit. But why bother?
Why not resign your self to a new tripod?
Then go looking for a 6 or seven foot peice of pipe to slide into the old broken tripod, and use it as a lightstand, at home?

first you have to learn to ignore color in the sense that if you were completely color blind, how bright and reflective is the various subjects in the scene? then you have to look up something like Adams Zone system to figure out how you intend to expose for various tones within the subjects in the viewfinder. Lastly you need to know your color theory in order to understand HOW various color filters will effect the colors in the scene, because a color filter WILL change the tone of the subject.... for example a blue filter will darken a red tomato, a red filter will lighten the tomato... but wait... what about the green leaves if you add a green filter you will lighten the leaves while at the same time darkening the red tomato...


so whether digital or film... you need to know color theory to effectivly create black and white.

if the image above were to be filtered with a blue filter, then converted to b&w, the pistols (or is that anthers?) in that flower would be much much darker in the final b&w conversion, and as such they'd stand out more.....