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05/18/2005 08:17:36 PM · #1 |
| I am a camera owner and I would like to know how people take photos with only the subject and everything else is white? What material should I use to shoot stuff on? How do I get my whites their whitest? It seems like everyone is able to do that but me. How is it done? |
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05/18/2005 08:21:34 PM · #2 |
Im no expert at all, but I found just some simple white Posterboard works well, then adjust the levels/curves to make it bright and smooth..
This is just white posterboard as a backing..
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05/18/2005 08:31:02 PM · #3 |
| I think you are experiencing your camera's meter being fooled. Your meter wants to set the camera for 18% grey. When you shoot something very bright, the meter tells the camera to reduce the aperture to make it grey. That's why snow and bright sand can look kind of muddy and grey color. To compensate, manually open up a couple of stops from where the camera's meter says you should be and you should be right in the ball park. |
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05/18/2005 08:45:56 PM · #4 |
I have a white foamboard and for my Light on White entry I used white paper in a roll and just unrolled it so there was a slight curve in it toward the bottom. I also noticed that when I shot in a room that wasn't painted white for instance a peach color I got that color cast on my photo. Use bright lights and make sure the room you are in has white walls.
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05/18/2005 09:57:48 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Pedxer:
I am a camera owner and I would like to know how people take photos with only the subject and everything else is white? What material should I use to shoot stuff on? How do I get my whites their whitest? It seems like everyone is able to do that but me. How is it done? |
do you mean this type???
this is just cut out in the photo editing program an placed on a blank white canvas from the photo editing program this is the before photo
Message edited by author 2005-05-18 21:59:42. |
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05/18/2005 10:00:11 PM · #6 |
Light your white background 2 stops brighter than your subject... at least thats what I have been told ;o)
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05/18/2005 10:01:06 PM · #7 |
For this...  , I used a computer monitor with a white desktop background and overexposed from the indicated standard exposure in order to get the whites white.
-Nick |
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05/18/2005 10:03:00 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by buzzmom:
Originally posted by Pedxer:
I am a camera owner and I would like to know how people take photos with only the subject and everything else is white? What material should I use to shoot stuff on? How do I get my whites their whitest? It seems like everyone is able to do that but me. How is it done? |
do you mean this type???
this is just cut out in the photo editing program an placed on a blank white canvas from the photo editing program this is the before photo |
Could you please share how you did that... I wanted to do this to one flower i have but the bakground is very detailed like the one you have here... and i wanted to make it totaly white...
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05/18/2005 10:10:01 PM · #9 |
sure .... i just cropped using an edge finder in a very cheap editing program...Microsoft Picture it 7.0...i know you can do it in ps i just havent figured it out there yet...picture it sells for $19.99 us.
after you go around the entire edge you choose to use what you have selected... the flower...in a seperate project...it automaticaly puts it on white backround...i just cut it out to use for my new profile pic....good luck let me see how it turns out |
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05/18/2005 10:11:42 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by buzzmom:
sure .... i just cropped using an edge finder in a very cheap editing program...Microsoft Picture it 7.0...i know you can do it in ps i just havent figured it out there yet...picture it sells for $19.99 us.
after you go around the entire edge you choose to use what you have selected... the flower...in a seperate project...it automaticaly puts it on white backround...i just cut it out to use for my new profile pic....good luck let me see how it turns out |
And how much time do you take to do this in microsoft picture 7?
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05/18/2005 10:18:11 PM · #11 |
$40 roll of 9x30 seemless paper.
 Diffused lighting is the key!
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05/19/2005 01:33:17 AM · #12 |
For this image I used a large white sheet (well ironed) hung it in front of a window with a bright sunshine coming in behind, set up the flowers in a Vase far enough away from sheet so as not to make a shadow when using a flash. If the light is still not enough you can position lights on the sides and use reflectors as well (even sheets of aluminum foil, pots and pans will do :)
I took more than 300 shots of this my favorite of all flowers but it still didn't do more than just ok :( but I seem to have mastered the technique how to achieve it so that's what counts!
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05/19/2005 02:42:22 AM · #13 |
Always use your bathtub:
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05/19/2005 07:11:26 AM · #14 |
| There are some great ideas here, and some very nice pictures. Thanks all. |
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05/19/2005 07:13:21 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by Discraft:
Originally posted by buzzmom:
sure .... i just cropped using an edge finder in a very cheap editing program...Microsoft Picture it 7.0...i know you can do it in ps i just havent figured it out there yet...picture it sells for $19.99 us.
after you go around the entire edge you choose to use what you have selected... the flower...in a seperate project...it automaticaly puts it on white backround...i just cut it out to use for my new profile pic....good luck let me see how it turns out |
And how much time do you take to do this in microsoft picture 7? |
for that flower...a minute and a half...it naturally senses the edge of what you are cropping and clings to it
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05/19/2005 07:22:08 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by BikeRacer:
Always use your bathtub:
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I sure will come next pet portrait, my last one didn't show much contrast!
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05/19/2005 07:24:54 AM · #17 |
Let's see if I can remember how Robert(bear_music) told me how to do it in PS. Select part of the background. Then select......similar.....select.......inverse.........edit.......copy
file......new......ok......edit.....paste
you will have to do some minor brush work but that is how he told me how to do it. I did it for an image of a mailbox for a friend and it worked quite well.
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05/19/2005 07:27:28 AM · #18 |
good mornin rex and may the force be with you....lets see the picture of the mailbox...please.....:)
and i find it hard to believe that bear told you how to do anything in under 5000 words!!! LOL!
Message edited by author 2005-05-19 07:28:31.
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05/19/2005 07:28:25 AM · #19 |
It is at home and I am at work......I can show it later....
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05/19/2005 07:29:35 AM · #20 |
ok...ooops i forget people work for a living...ok i'll catch it later
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