
Recreating a Room in Your Studio
Sunday 23 March 2025, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 2,103 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
I often enjoy working on location during a photoshoot. It usually looks better in your photo than a paper roll as a background. You can also create better stories this way. Finding locations can be a hassle, though, so I sometimes recreate a room in my studio.

It can be relatively easy to create the illusion of a room. For the photo above, I bought a roll of wallpaper and attached it to the wall using some double-sided tape.
I have a sofa bed in the studio which, with a sheet over it, immediately looks like a bed, and of course it can actually be used as one.
Some net curtains on a background stand suggest a window. A flash provides the light behind the curtains, giving me nice, even lighting from my so-called window in the room in my studio.

For another photoshoot, I bought a dressing table on Marktplaats for 30 euros. I think it is another nice addition for creating the look of a bedroom.
This way, you can create great photos at relatively little cost and with little effort, making it look as though you went somewhere on location for your shoot.


About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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