Everybody wants to do this at least once right? We’ll after a few false starts I finally got a result which is pretty usable.
DIY White Seamless background test
Ok so the white shorts were a mistake but still the result pleased me given that it was just a white sheet and some boards painted white to stand on. Two SB-600 at half power are about level with the model (me) pointing one a bit up and one a bit down to cover the area behind me until it is almost blow — RGB around ~250, and under foot is a large (8×4′) board painted with flat white paint. Read more...
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November 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The other day I saw this nice post at diyphotography.net about a simple backdrop stand, and it made me think how I do this with bamboo. Nothing bamboo specific about it I think, and in fact really not much to it at all.
Basically I leverage chairs , specifically any chair with straight legs (so no sofas or lazyboys or office spinners). Why? Because chairs are everywhere, and they tend to stay put — they are easy to weight down with a few books or you can even have someone sit on it. So you it isn’t anything extra, it’s just using what you have. Read more...
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