How do I take my neutral background pics?

[tonguello]

I was asked by bonnie how I take my neutral background pics and I promise to post some pics of the making-of but sadly I had no time before my vacations.
So here it is.

It is a very simple process as shown in these pictures from the swimsuits shooting.







I place a color paper on a movable base and stick it with tape. The other end of the paper taped to the wall.
The movable base makes it versatile to have a more defined or smoother division between floor and back wall moving the base closer or farer from the wall. The farer form the back wall the smoother the result.
Focusing with the cam on the clickies you kinda loose the back and you get a neutral colored background.

 

Simple, right?

[bonniebeth]

You remembered! Thanks, Gaston! Extremely simple, and I like the effect very much. If you don't want to make a project of setting up an elaborate backdrop, totally neutral works great. I may use your idea.

[tonguello]

You remembered! Thanks, Gaston! Extremely simple, and I like the effect very much. If you don't want to make a project of setting up an elaborate backdrop, totally neutral works great. I may use your idea.

you are welcome bb, of course use it !!! 

[Wolf Knight]

Very clever, very simple and very efficient Gaston!!! Thank you for sharing this technic!!

[Bill Blackhurst]

Excellent instructions, Gaston! It reminds me of the one I did as a joke a while back!

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3321.msg39250#msg39250

[conniefrere]

Thanks for sharing! Will try it too! One of my targets this year is making pictures without backgrounds of the interior of my house or a something else in it.

[Tiermann]

Yep works a treat. It's the method I've been using at Animobil since the start. I had to turn the paper sideways today to fit in all the elephants for a single shot now that the mammoths are finally here

[tonguello]

Excellent instructions, Gaston! It reminds me of the one I did as a joke a while back!

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3321.msg39250#msg39250

  that's a great thread Bill!


Guys, it is a really goodfective and ef method, used by photographers for portraits and fashion shots... nothing I invented!

[bonniebeth]

Yeah, I've had my picture taken on a life-size one of those in a studio before. Not paper of course. But a curved white backdrop like that, made of plaster.