Equipment and Overhead Costs Photography equipment can be expensive, especially for professional-grade cameras, lenses, and lighting equipment. Photographers must also pay for studio space, website hosting, and other expenses to run their business.

Light. Light has to be first because it's the holy grail of beautiful studio portraits and not only. Numero uno priority. It doesn't matter how gorgeous your location, how fancy your camera, or how stunning your subject…if you don't have good light, you're on the back foot from the get-go.

Studio photography typically involves taking photographs indoors, in a highly controlled environment called a photographic studio – a photography studio is a workspace specifically designed and built for the purpose of taking photographs and will include a team of professional photographers, assistants and often pupils ...