Colonel Blip wrote:
Hello, All!
Anyone aware of decent portrait photo backdrop screen (like used in professional studios) pictures that are freely available?
Thanks,
Colonel Blip.
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I hope this helps in forming the conclusion yourself that maybe a different technique might allow you to improvise with what is at hand instead of lumping around a bloody great stand and canvas.
Some times I use a "Nissan" brand remote slave on a spare speedlite behind everyday curtain material to blow the background away altogether. It just depends on the effect you wish to achieve.
If you need a white backdrop, see if you can pick up an old movie or projector screen. These have reflective surface which you can use a slave behind the subject with a gel over it to very good effect. If you need a black background, try and find a material known as "Stereo black" which works in the opposite to a projector screen.
One technique I use when the background is anything other than ideal is to crop the shot so tightly as to make the background insignificant. This picture :
http://www.photosbydouglas.com/canvas/images/1boy1.jpg was shot while the subject was on a table in a kitchen. The background was a dresser full of plates and the father assembling the boy’s present. Not the ideal setting for family portraits.
Background drops are sooo 60ish 🙂 Today it is not unacceptable to frame just a face, cropping off the ears and hair for a very acceptable portrait. Of course if you intend to shoots heads for corporate identities, you need a backdrop.
This shot here:
http://www.photosbydouglas.com/familys.htm uses a plain white sheet for a backdrop. Once again I used close cropping and tightly posed subjects to make whatever I used for the background totally irrelevant to the picture. You can’t see the cotton wool I used in the lower half but it too was useful.
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