How is this created: Hi all, Need to take some close ups of various things indoors and needed your advice on how to create a background like this picture (is done pre/post?). Thanks in...

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How is this created

Apr 23, 2012 16:57:33 #

qha00

Hi all,

Need to take some close ups of various things indoors and needed your advice on how to create a background like this picture (is done pre/post?).

Thanks in advance,

Apr 23, 2012 17:01:49 #

MWAC Loc: Somewhere East Of Crazy

It's a faded endless background, to acheive this you use layers and the paintbrush at 50% and about a 50% opacity

Apr 23, 2012 17:19:35 #

bhfranklin Loc: Boston Area / Cape Cod

Thanks MWAC - good info which i also wanted to know.

Apr 23, 2012 18:06:59 #

Guy Johnstone Loc: Ocean Shores WA

There are any number of ways to do it. Traditionally it was done with a tabletop sweep and a acetate screen overtop. you can do it in postprocessing with paintbrush or better still a graduate layer. If you're shooting very many items the tabletop/sweep set up will be less time-consuming. Once you get it set up you can just drop in as many items, of a similar size, as you want. You could easily light and shoot 20 items in the time it would take to process one.

Apr 24, 2012 08:40:33 #

Blake Loc: Alfred NY

Bhfranklin,
I love your avatar. Where did you take it at?

Blake

Apr 24, 2012 10:40:05 #

robertperry Loc: Sacramento, Ca.

Looks like very shallow DOF, camera set at edge of table, black paper background, strobe (flash unit) set on the floor with a purple gel over the strobe. Take test shots first to determine correct flash angle for product being photographed. Main light (defused) set directly over the camera (notice shadow area under camera ). Background flash (purple) set 2-3 f stops below correct exposure of product.

Apr 24, 2012 16:59:05 #

bhfranklin Loc: Boston Area / Cape Cod

Blake wrote:

Bhfranklin,
I love your avatar. Where did you take it at?

Blake

thanks Blake, this is the Race Point lighthouse on Cape Cod where we had the opportunity to stay for a weekend as a special part of a lighthouse preservation society.

It was the third lighthouse set up on the Cape originally

Apr 24, 2012 22:49:54 #

Blake Loc: Alfred NY

Thanks Brian,
I have visited many lighthouses from New England to Nova Scotia but I have not seen this one. It's very nice.

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