White background
Aug 29, 2011 20:35:26 #
Hello,
I hope you can help, I have an ebay business an take a lot of pictures which happens to be the hardest part of my job is getting the perfect photograph because I'm not great at it however, great pictures sell.
I would like to make my pictures look more professional by having a white background. I don't have photoshop so I using some software obtained free online GIMP 2. I used it however, it's very time saking and I'm hoping for a faster way to change the background.
Best Regards,
Barbara
I hope you can help, I have an ebay business an take a lot of pictures which happens to be the hardest part of my job is getting the perfect photograph because I'm not great at it however, great pictures sell.
I would like to make my pictures look more professional by having a white background. I don't have photoshop so I using some software obtained free online GIMP 2. I used it however, it's very time saking and I'm hoping for a faster way to change the background.
Best Regards,
Barbara
Aug 30, 2011 02:29:52 #
Instead of using software to change backgrounds, you could invest in of these small picutre studio. They came with a tent and couple of lights, but you can change the background or leave it white.
Aug 30, 2011 09:29:10 #
Go to Youtube.com and do a search on product photography, you will find great and cheap ways to photograph without costly lighting or backgrounds.
Aug 30, 2011 17:15:00 #
jefxan wrote:
Go to Youtube.com and do a search on product photography, you will find great and cheap ways to photograph without costly lighting or backgrounds.
Go to eBay (since you're there all the time anyway) and you can get a white 16", 20", 24", or 32" square photo shooting "booth" or "soft box" from China made out of thin nylon that springs open into a box shape with one open side. It comes with several colors of material to lay the product on or you can use just white. You point a couple or three really bright lights at the outside of the box and the lights are diffused by the nylon material to give you even lighting on all sides. I'd use daylight balanced fluorescent 100-watt or 150-watt equivalent bulbs in desk lamps that have adjustable goosenecks so you can point them right at the nylon closeup. Hot bulbs might catch it on fire. You stick the camera lens into the front open side with the camera mounted on a tiny tripod (maybe a foot tall and available on eBay or even at Radio Shack) and shoot away. If your whites aren't turning out completely white you might try white balancing and boosting the exposure in GIMP so that the background will "blow out" yet the product doesn't.
You're looking at maybe a $75 investment for everything except the little tripod.
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