What can I do to eliminate such shadows!? Are backlighting (illuminating the background) really effective!? Is this enough!? What's the best lighting to use, how strong shall I illuminate the background!? Please help!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My very first reaction is the same as above!.!.!. your simplest and best cure would be to get the background farther away from your subject!. If that is not possible, then yes, lighting the background will certainly work!. It has been done that way for eons in portrait photography, though it is often used more for the framing effect rather than to hide shadows!. You simply have to have the background lit with at least twice the output of your camera flash!. If you have access to an incident flash light meter, you would take a reading of your flash output, then set up lights on the background and take readings of your light there!. You would have to increase the background light until it was at least two stops greater than the flash output!. I am not familiar with that camera, but you have to be sure it meters for the subject and not the bright background, or your subject will be very dark!. also, you may be able to diffuse your flash somewhat to help soften the shadows!. Even some tissue paper over the flash can help!. (Compliments the subject too)!. You will just have to experiment with placing lights at floor level shining up onto the background, and even possibly more lights above shining down onto the background!. Again, the trick is just to get the background lit much brighter than your main subject lighting to "hide" the shadows!. My wife has had INS, (immigration), photos taken in which there was a metal frame which was behind the subject!. There were lights at each corner of the frame!. The lights were aimed to the background to light it!. The frame and lights were large enough to not be in the photo, but brought the light level up on the background so that any shadows were eliminated!. You may have to construct something of that nature!. steveWww@QuestionHome@Com Move your subj at least 4 ft away from the any backgrounds or walls!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |