Light — Science & Magic, 6th Edition

SETTING UP YOUR FIRST STUDIO 293

By Marilyn’s account, she was indeed fortunate. She was blessed with

being sure of the kind of photography she wanted to do from the earliest

days of her career. As an art student, she had been exposed to still life paint-

ings done by the masters. And, as she put it, she was “blown away” by them.

From then on, she knew exactly the kind of images she wanted to make.

And what about you? What sort of images do you want to make in your

studio? Are you most interested, for example, in starting a portrait business?

Or are you perhaps more interested in product, ne art, scientic, or some

other photographic avenue?

Once you have decided on at least a tentative answer to these and similar

questions, you hav ...