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What background do you prefer?
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Yes but to get the colour right I lost the effect of the wood That is my preferred background if you have a look at most of my pictures, but this didn't seem to show very well.
blue is my choice
What about on a mirror? Tilted so the flash doesn't fire back into the lens. Worth a try?
Penpal
Grand Master
Being a photographer for well over 60 yrs from box brownie your question is very familiar. IMHO a background should do several things but for me with pens I use 11 by 14 inch photocopy paper this one ream has served me for twenty plus years, my set up takes me fully five minutes to have ready, lit and in business, it is an open frame of conduit with two pieces on top to support a top light as well.
Neutral grey is an ideal for white balance.
Keep your background out of focus, have back lighting to help separation. For me sometimes I get carried away and throw in timber offcuts, shells indeed anything just a few thoughts mate from a bloke who bought three hundred fabric samples one time to use as backgrounds and came back to a simple solution that suits me.
have success Kind regards Peter.
Neutral grey is an ideal for white balance.
Keep your background out of focus, have back lighting to help separation. For me sometimes I get carried away and throw in timber offcuts, shells indeed anything just a few thoughts mate from a bloke who bought three hundred fabric samples one time to use as backgrounds and came back to a simple solution that suits me.
have success Kind regards Peter.
Penpal
Grand Master
Just had a thought in the 1970,s we had a Photostudio for five years if you had asked about people backgrounds this was what we used in our studio one flash reflected off the wall with a reflector this was 41 yrs ago me and the misses a mate of mine visiting from 1500 miles away said give me 5 mins I will take a couple of pics of you two. I had a 9 weeks beard to support a charity at the time. Pretentous name for this background was called an old master one we used sponges and canvas and created dark and light being heavily impressed by Rembrant paintings. Once again work for simplicity, ease of use backgrounds and absolute repeatability. Took a quick pic of the framed us we had 6 children one near finished school. No secret why I married my wife last week 58 yrs ago we were around 40 yrs then.
Kind regards Peter.
Kind regards Peter.
