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,
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
Thanks MWAC - good info which i also wanted to know.
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.
Bhfranklin,
I love your avatar. Where did you take it at?
Blake
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.
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
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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