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In lugnet.publish.photography, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.publish.photography, John Henry Kruer writes:
> > I've noticed that lots of people take pictures with a totally white
> > background, such as this:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=144018
> > I really like the effect. But how do you do it? I've tried posterboard, but
> > you can see the creases:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=205734
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> John, if you meant the last link to represent a pic with creases in the
> background I don't see them. It looks good from here. :)
If you look at the right-hand side, there's a crease...
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> > Is this an exposure effect? A focus effect? Something else?
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> From what I've seen, most are done using a technique known as an 'infinite
> background'. Basically, a piece of poster board, bristol board, paper,
> sheet etc. which starts on the floor or ground and curves up onto the wall.
> Thus, no corner seam of any kind. Some photography and film studios have
> these walls built into the floor/wall of the building. I've seen them used
> for a variety of effects.
Hmmm... Thats interesting. I could maybe do that with some paper.
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> I believe the other part of the equation is using a macro setting on your
> camera. This causes what is known as a shortened 'depth of field'. In
> other words, the camera can only focus on a very small range of distance in
> front of it. It can only focus on the object OR the background, but not
> both at the same time. Thus, if the object is IN focus, the background is
> slightly OUT of focus. This helps to create the effect that the background
> is sort of not there.
Yeah, i've found that out using my macro mode.
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> I'm sure there are other techniques that can be suggested, but these two are
> the ones I'm most familiar with.
>
> Best regards,
> Allan B.
Thanks!
-JHK
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| Along with macro and the curved paper technique I use "Auto Levels" and/or "Levels" in Photoshop. Heres a picture of my setup and a link to another post I made on this (don't follow the image links in the other post, they're dead) (URL) that helps! (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) background I don't see them. It looks good from here. :) (...) From what I've seen, most are done using a technique known as an 'infinite background'. Basically, a piece of poster board, bristol board, paper, sheet etc. which starts on the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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