I really appreciate how approchable, your videos are, and real, as oppose to staged, scripted, filtered. And you can feel the integrity and humanity in them. I never hesitate to recommend your channel to my photographer friends.

Loved seeing Meg in those test shots 👍

Love the pic of Meg! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time.

Seeing a beautiful portrait of Meg at the very end there made my morning. Thank you.

Garages have been the humble beginnings of many great things. Love the simplicity, thoughtfulness, and pragmatism with which you've set this up. And the host-like openness with which you're showing us around.

Glad to see you're making the most of your new environment and living space Sean. I'm sure everything will work out for you. Take care of yourself.

Megs my favourite shot at the end 😊

Thats one handsome Simon at 17.30. Like he's auditioning to be the next Bond, in which Bond retires to become a photographer, 'Quantum of Woodland' I think it's called... 😄

Love it, Sean! Love how you have a very modular setup, utilising the whole space, with each corner a specific plan and purpose, how envious! :) Looking forward to your light sculpting explorations in this space..

Right before the pandemic hit I was lucky to have a big gorgeous space to do my shoots. It was great for the action /dancer shots I do often. Nothing is forever and I lost that studio so now Im back to my small space and making that work again. I have access to a bigger space but that means moving so much gear that it isnt worth it plus I have lots of funky accessories and props at my fingertips right here. I even use a small fog machine and it works well...I think better than the spray. Thanks for keeping me inspired about working in a more humble environment! IM happy that you have Square Space. Keep shooting, making videos etc and keep safe from all the variants ...all best from a NYC fan.

Wow...I would really love more of that sir. Thank you so much for this lovely tutorials it has helped me so much and my love has grown. Prince from Nigeria ❤

Sean, Tom Here in Tampa, Fla Area USA. Your Video on PHoto Studio Space is Outstanding. I am an old man soon to be 83 in June 2023. I am in the process of setting up a Photo Studio in my Lana 9 ft x 17 ft. I gatheed a lot of infor from Your Video. Thank You so very very much intelligent Young Man. I greatly appreciate your time & effort making this Video.

So much inspiration in such a small space! Thanks so much Sean for sharing your set-up with us and discussing what works for you. It gives me a huge amount of inspiration to do my own.

It's great to see so many options for how to set up studio lighting, as well as the use of various backdrops. I am in the middle of painting some custom backdrops for my studio, which affords me the options for materials, paint and effects. Thanks for your useful videos!

Thank you for sharing the way you do things. Very intelligible and approachable. Thank you!

I just gotta say I appreciate work and information that you share. I primarily shoot wildlife and nature. So setting up flashes and stuff is so intimidating to me.

I will be looking forward to getting some tutorials, but I also enjoy the things you talk about around it. What amazes me most is, how you take your camera from the street straight into the studio. Those worlds are so different, and yet you manage to find a balance of some kind. Mastering different fields can be hard but also very fulfilling. So best of luck with both of it!

As ever, you put it so well and make things easy to understand (love the width of beauty dish/distance from subject detail). Really looking forward to you covering portrait sessions in future posts. You are doing a fantastic job: keep it up!

I am so exited for the new content. The way you explain makes things very clear. Can't wait!

What a brilliant idea Sean! The test shots look fantastic, even Meg got a look in 😎

I feel like your videos help me to remember to stay grounded :) thank you ❤️

Amazing vid. You just gave me the answers to all of my beginner, building a studio questions.

That's a great setup Sean, it's amazing that each light and each reflector etc has a purpose, it's a whole learning system before you even pick a camera up. I can imagine so many people getting the lighting wrong, certainly me for one. I suppose you can learn so much and the rest is experience. Brilliant stuff. 👍

Thanks Sean! This video came on a perfect time for me, I admire you and I like your vision. Keep on rocking!

Very useful and its always a joy to listen to your calm voice and demeanour.

This was a great video, and I'm SO excited for more portrait videos!

This is just brilliant, the most simplified explanation of studio lighting and modifiers/accessories out there! did I remember to say amazing?

This is great, thank you Sean. This has inspired me to hold into my gear for my future studio.

I see this VR recording was done about 2 years ago, I’m 65 and trying my hand at portrait photography now, I have 3 speed lights to play with, you’ve gave me some fantastic inspiration on set ups, but the best bit. Fred the head.

Sean, thanks for teaching me a bunch of things today about lighting and photography. Amazing video! Take care 🙂

Just wanted to say that we love you, Sean! You are an inspiration in photography and how you approach life! I hope you're doing well. Thank you

This is really great! I love the "keeping it simple."

Keep it the studio content coming. Nice simple setup and easy to mimic for small spaces. Thank you for sharing your craft.

Great! Thanks a lot Sean. Looking forward to seeing more portrait videos👍

Sean, many thanks. alway good to watch your videos and glad that you are moving onward and upward.

I appreciate your videos sooo much. You are a fantastic teacher and I learn so much from each of your videos. Thank you

I love the simplicity of it all

Yes, I will wait for the next series of garage portrait photoshoot!

Great video, I have learned a lot from your channel when it comes to portrait photography. Thanks and keep them coming :-)

Thank you Sean. Just starting small studio portrait photography myself so I’m looking forward to learning from you.

I really enjoy your honest outlook on photography, it is inspiring. This recent piece is so helpful because you show professional results in a humble setting. Thank you and please keep up the phylosophical angle too. Lisa.

Great show through and explanations. Thanks for making this so accessible Sean.

Another really great video. Very much looking forward to seeing more of your portraiture work in future. The test shots at the end were beautiful, I’d be very keen to see more around how you created some of those moods.

Keep it up! Not enough portraiture tutorials on youtube....so glad to see this type of videotape again!

Yes Sean 👍🏼 I’d love to see your videos of how you light your subjects and poise people , it would be fantastic. I’ve learned so much from your original one light video. Great work

Lovely ideas and great inspiration Sean. I’ve been shooting portraits at home for a while and you’ve given me some renewed excitement with your set up!

Fantastic video as always Sean! And yes I’m interested in your other portraiture ideas

Thanks Sean this was wonderful information. I would love to see more about portraits and the process involved. I’ve always been a bit intimidated by studio lighting but you made it very simple and easy.

So happy to see you settled in your new place and the garage studio will work really well. I’m looking forward to seeing your new portraits.

Thank you. Very timely and helpful. Building a home right now that will have an office/studio for my photography. You've given me some ideas.

What a cool garage photo studio! It’s always enjoyable to learn something new from Sean Tucker.

So well explained - thank you - I look forward to future videos on portrait photography.

Thank you for being a great teacher. I’m just setting up my first portrait studio. We converted a carport. I’ll be looking for more great tips from you.

Love the very practical studio setup. It will be really interesting watching your videos on putting it into use. Thank you.

I like your idea of showing a variety of lighting setups while explaining them. It sounds like it could be a great new series....You guys have #portrait #lighting questions? Stay tuned for another episode of "Ask Fred the Head"! 😉📸

I have a similar setup in my garage and really enjoy going out there and creating new photos. Our instructor gave us the assignment this week of low key and its interesting figuring out how to do that. Thanks for your tips about using light. Hadn't heard that before about distance from subject and diameter of modifier. It's good to see you're amongst friends!

I just wanted to thank you for this video. It's the most useful description of a portrait photo setup I've seen.

can t wait to see more

Thanks for sharing Sean!

Thank you for posting. This is very helpful. Yes please post more videos about portraits, including using this setup. Cheers from Canada.

Loved watching this

Clear, concise, helpful -- and thank you for the test photos at the end of the talk.

Awesome video. I have a very similar set up in a garage which has been converted into an office/studio. It's a great space to work. The advice on positioning a softbox the same distance as it's width away from the subject is a real nugget of information. I'm self-taught and still learning tips like this is SO useful.

Yeah i would love to see more portrait material, ive been curious about lighting techniques as im a natural light photographer.

Wow. Works well as a video shoot setup too!

Great video!!!! Even with a portrait of Meg! Thank you for sharing!!!!

Great video! Lots of good tips for small space. Thanks for sharing your setup

Your studio is WOW

Thank you Sean for sharing your highly valuable experience with all of us out there. Greetings from Mexico. Michael

Thank you Sean.. Truly appreciated..

Cant wait for future portrait videos!

Thata a great simple setup Sean. Well done. I would love to see more portrait videos. I loved the last image of Meg. Thank you.

Really cool to see how you light a small space. I have been thinking of using my garage in the same way. Thanks for the inspiration Sean

such a generous tutorial! thank you very much. I learned a lot today. thanks for revealing the potreture stuff, it is very inspiring though.

A great studio and a great tour. It looks like you have made it work well for you. I'm across the pond from you, but have a similar sized space for a studio, but upstairs in my home, in what had been a 2nd and otherwise unused master bedroom suite. The 8' ceilings are limiting, but the room is 18' X 26' with a walk-in 10' deep closet for gear storage, and I've made use of the upstairs hallway outside the shooting room for the make-up/hair and coffee break area. I have a long finished "attic room" off the hallway for family storage, but I'm also using it for "props". There is also a bathroom with the door to it located behind my camera position in the shooting room. In the shooting room I have six 10' foot wide hanging backdrops, black, white, gray, chroma blue, chroma green, and a pleated light blue backdrop that has a theater curtain look to it. All are on rollers to allow being raised and lowered easily. Because of the crowded conditions, tripods and power cords on the shooting room floor became a serious trip hazard early in this studio build , so I installed 4, soon to be 5 ten ft long pieces of 1 X 1 X 1/4" steel angles running parallel with the backdrops and spaced about 4' apart. These are spaced about 4" down from the ceiling on short lengths of 1/2" steel pipe at each end, with floor flanges threaded on the ends to allow attachment to the ceiling (They are called "Floor Flanges, but in this case, attached upside down to the ceiling. I added Wiremold electrical power strips along both ends of these angles on the ceiling, so I have an electrical outlet on each end of the long angles every 6" all the way to the backdrops. This gives me power within 5' of any light position where I wish to hang a light from these angles or power a light on a light stand below. If I want to place a light somewhere between two of these long angles, I have some shorter 5' long pieces of the same angle that I can bridge between any two of the long angles. I use electrical beam clamps (a tiny version of a C-clamp with 1/4-20 threaded holes) to secure the short angles to the long angles. Bolting two of these beam clamps together allows me to attach one to the lower long angle and the other to the upper crossing short angle. One of these double clamps at each end of the short angles secures them well to the long angles. I modified my light stands by adding 1/4-20 bolts to the bottom end of the main shaft, so that I can use them upside down and threaded into one of the electrician's beam clamps, I then attach a beam clamp to one of the ceiling angles and I hang the lights from these upside down tripods. For stability, the tripod legs can be opened to brace the stand against the ceiling. I still use the lights on floor stands while setting up, until I decide where it needs to be placed. Then I hang it upside down from the ceiling grid on a stand in that position. Doing this has almost completely eliminated the tripod stands and power cords from my studio floor, eliminating most trip hazards, and making it much safer in my studio. My digital Darkroom is behind the camera in the camera left corner of the room on a computer table. The tether cable runs from the camera positon with plenty of slack, up to the ceiling grid and along the electrical conduit to my shooting computer, camera right. My soft boxes that are not in use are hanging on the wall camera left. Along the wall camera right are more computer tables with printers, paper, batteries charging area, and post production computer. This studio space, other than the ceiling height, is working quite well for me, since I'm doing mostly portraits and product work. Standing portraits are difficult in here, but seated is working well. I'm doing both stills and video here. The videos, so far, have been mostly talks and table demonstrations. I just thought you might see something in this description that you might like, but you seem to already be managing quite well. Sorry, other than a few photo posts of my studio on forums, I haven't built a website or made a video of the place, yet. CharleyL

Lots of information!! I love it !!

Wishing you all the best. I have a similar single garage setup! Great to see I worked it out similar to yours. Thanks as always

Beautiful, thanks for sharing!

Great as always! Looking forward to more portrait video

Thank you for the great ideas. Appreciate your videos.

Only just "discovered" your channel Sean and as an amateur photographer really enjoying the portraiture side, I have found your videos useful, interesting and entertaining. The lighting side especially. Please keep them up.

Looking forward to further studio adventures

Just when I needed an inspiration. Never disappointed

Wry nice set up Sean! Love it bro! Have fun! 👍

Thank you, Sir. Extremely informative. Please more of this ilk.

Buenisimo Sean ! voy a probarlo, gracias !!

Great video with lots of very helpful & practical advice!

Good video. You're one of only 4 or 5 KZfaqrs I recommend to people starting out in photography.

Fantastic video as always and great tips on inside portrait shooting

Thanks Sean Looking forward to "Garage Portraits "

You are one of the most amazing Mentor that we ever had.

Love the video and would love to see more on portrait setups.

This's great timing for me. Just a couple weeks ago, my son and I started clearing out and organizing our garage for this exact purpose. It's a massive, 2 car garage, and it's full of totes and things full of family members' things, so it's a huge project that's going to take a few months, probably. But, I've been trying to think about how I'll set it up and this's giving me a lot to incorporate in. Thanks much.

Looking forward to it

Thanks for this video. I'd love to see some more of your portrait wisdom.

Your ability to explain things is terrific. Thanks for sharing your garage studio with us. Really nice and purposeful set up. My mannequin is named Sophie. She is always available and doesn’t charge for her time lol.

Quite a nice studio Sean. Congrats and keep producing these really good videos.

SUPER helpful, thank you so much!

Love this and feel like you are my very own personal mentor! The Gravity backdrop is gorgeous...well worth the $$$$! I am surely going to order one.

Very much looking forward to small home studio portraiture and lighting.