White background in post production

[joel28]

How would you make the background white in post production?

 

[mustafanazif]

open "curves" in ps (ctrl+M)
use whide eyedropper (right)
and select "pigment/ink%"
push eyedropper on blue area (preffer lighter blue area)
you will see it ill be white and balance it lines on curves panel (red, green, blue, gray and black lines -prferres black line)
... thats it

here is your secreenshot

 

[JAC526]

Light the background so it is white straight out of the camera. I am not trying to be snarky at all with this response. Its just no that hard to achieve a white seamless background sooc with a couple lights.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Light the background so it is white straight out of the camera. I am not trying to be snarky at all with this response. Its just no that hard to achieve a white seamless background sooc with a couple lights.

Do you have any examples, SOOC?

 

[JAC526]

No. Not on hand. Give me a day or two and I'll try to post something up.

 

[JAC526]

You can feel free to tell me how i ****ed it up too. I'm here to learn.

 

[mustafanazif]

@JAC526 well said...
u just need big white paper... make it curve and you will have endless background...
use external flash (or sometime you no need)

i used curved big white paper and 600 EX-RT external flash (on tripod)

 

[joel28]

@JAC526 well said...
u just need big white paper... make it curve and you will have endless background...
use external flash (or sometime you no need)



i used curved big white paper and 600 EX-RT external flash (on tripod)

My photo was shot on a white curved shooting table.

 

[JAC526]

It just seems to me to make more sense to try to get it right in camera.

 

[mustafanazif]

@JAC526 well said...
u just need big white paper... make it curve and you will have endless background...
use external flash (or sometime you no need)


i used curved big white paper and 600 EX-RT external flash (on tripod)

My photo was shot on a white curved shooting table.

then you should check your W/B settings....
if you shot white area like blue, its mean your wb settings are wrong (or kelwin)...
you can see this wrong settings in winter shots
some snow photos looks blue ... why?

 

[cgipson1]

It just seems to me to make more sense to try to get it right in camera.

I agree! And you don't even need a White background to do it! You can do it with a Black background, just throw enough light at it to overexpose it a stop and a half or so.....

 

[thetrue]

@JAC526 well said...
u just need big white paper... make it curve and you will have endless background...
use external flash (or sometime you no need)



i used curved big white paper and 600 EX-RT external flash (on tripod)

My photo was shot on a white curved shooting table.

Seems to me that your white balance was off then....?

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

It just seems to me to make more sense to try to get it right in camera.

It does make more sense, until you try to actually do it. Getting a pure white ground, and proper light on your subject is harder than it sounds.

 

[JAC526]

To me it looked like the camera meter saw a whole bunch of white and decided to underexpose to make all the white the 18% grey it is calibrated to provide. I wonder what dialing in some +EV would have done.

 

[JAC526]

It just seems to me to make more sense to try to get it right in camera.

It does make more sense, until you try to actually do it. Getting a pure white ground, and proper light on your subject is harder than it sounds.

For sure. I'd much rather labor at that than labor at adjusting curves and EV in photoshop.