Category: background

How zooming with your lens and your feet changes relationship between foreground and background

Dunja Djudjic

Before you raise your torches and pitchforks, this is not another post about how focal length affects your subject, or whether you should “zoom with your feet” or not. I’m sure you’ve already seen how changing focal length and/or distance changes perspective, but this video answers an important question – what can you do with […]

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How I shot the Photoshoper’s wet dream: A PSD room where you can control 34 different lights

Stefan Kohler

(hit play on this movie to see what this article is about, this is not a computer generated image, it’s all done in camera – see the final product here) As someone who deals with compositing on a daily basis, I foud myself in a restless state. And I don’t mean that restless state that all […]

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How to easily use gels to create virtually any color background

Jeff Carpenter

Implementing gels into your photography is a really simple and effective way to make sure your images really stand out from the rest of the crowd. There are a ton of different ways to use gels to create some absolutely stunning imagery, but in this post, I am just going to show you a few […]

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If you can only get one backdrop for your studio, grey is what you want and here’s why

John Aldred

When setting up a studio, one of the more difficult decisions that a newer studio shooter must make is which backdrop to get.  More often than not, it’s which backdrops (plural) should they get? Photographer Joe Edelman is going to make it a real easy decision for you with this very informative video.  You don’t […]

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This quick tip can turn gloomy grey skies into a dramatic blue backdrop

Gannon Burgett

We might not possess the power to change the weather during a photoshoot, but we do have the power to change how the sky and surrounding environment looks with nothing more than a few tweaks to a camera’s settings. Here to explain just how to do that is David Bergman. As part of Adorama TV’s Two […]

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Adding Video Background to Keynote Presentations

Eric Renno

I recently attended an Adobe event and saw Rufus Deuchler presenting about mobile apps. As interesting as this talk was I was transfixed by the presentation he was giving because it has a moving background. I pondered the fact that Adobe might be releasing some new presentation software where this was a feature, but when […]

Extracting From A Green Screen – The LAB Trick

Eric Renno

If you’re shooting in a studio for compositing with Photoshop then you may be using a grey or green backdrop. I was spending a long time making masks until I saw this cool tip from Photoshop trainer Dave Cross, the time it’s saved me, thanks Dave! Open the images For this example I’ve got two […]