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02/06/2006 04:31:39 AM · #1 |
Good Day - How do I get those nice black backgrounds on my photos? I am for instance talking about the wildlife challenge with the wet tiger cub hanging in the tree. one thing I did try was to put a mask on the object and then change the background - works fine with something without hair, but what happens when the thing got hair all over the place?
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02/06/2006 05:40:49 AM · #2 |
Can you say which image you are talking about... or post a thumbnail i mean. I looked for the image you might be talking about, but couldn't find any.
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02/06/2006 05:59:52 AM · #3 |
Try using an extract mask in Photoshop it works much better with objects with hair...
Hope that this helps... If this does not help let me know. There are other ways to extract objects softly and accuratly, but would take more time to explain. |
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02/06/2006 07:51:50 AM · #4 |
The best thing is to try to do this photographically. If there is too much visible in the background in the original, chances are you could get nailed on removing too much from your picture in the post-processing.
This is generally frowned upon in challenges and in some cases has led to DQ.
You probably already know this, but if you want to do this photographically, you need to light your subject several stops brighter than the background. Doing this is generally best in darker areas and at darker times (dusk, twilight...). The flash can really help this type effect, so generally it is limited to stuff that is fairly close.
I wonder if that is what you meant seeing as you don't have any examples of pictures already taken.
If you mean that you want to do it after the fact in PS or something, I'll let someone else answer... |
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02/06/2006 08:06:51 AM · #5 |
| I can't find any wet tigers hanging either. My opinion is that black background may not be a good choice for wildlife, because it sterilizes the shot. It's always better to have some of the environment, at least the colours. The easier to make a backgound is when you have shadows in the backgound and the light source has very little influence on it. In this case I usually overexpose my subject, so far that I just avoid blow-outs and darken the image later. Works mostly with light subjects - darker background, this is what I have done in the challenge Book Titles. |
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