Garage studios and crying babies

Fake Tears (Read the Desc.), originally uploaded by Michael Shattuck.

If you're wondering why I have a picture of my little guy crying you'll have to click on it the photo and go read the description. I'll give you a hint...we can already smell the Oscar!

I've recently had some time and a bit of money to put together a small, very low-budget studio in the garage connected to our house here. It's been a lot of fun looking for cheap solutions...large sheets at places like Goodwill to use as backgrounds (like the one with Mattie), lighting elements from home depot, etc. It's amazing what you can put together for a minimal amount of money. If I were to do the same thing with pro equipment we're talking 10s of thousands of dollars. Of course I'm not producing all-pro materials...but I'm happy with it!

Take a look around after you click on Mattie's picture here. There are a few faces on the flickr feed that I'm sure you'll recognize.