photo assignment- shoot white on white.. tips?

[theregoesjb]

For a class I have to shoot white on white, the example she showed was a white dog in snow. No snow here but i was thinking shooting my roll of toilet paper that sits on a holder against white wall tile. Or maybe place the roll on a closed toilet seat. Not a lot of natural light in the bathroom though.

any tips for getting the contrast of white subject on white background?

 

[2WheelPhoto]

The simplest trick may be lightning. Light the background however you want. Light the subject different, keep in mind the one stop rule.

 

[kundalini]

2Wheels is right that it will be in the lighting. Does the subject have to be completely white or can it be predominately white?

Example

 

[Sammie_Lou]

Vanilla ice cream in a white bowl?? Maybe you could even sprinkle some shredded coconut on it to give it a little something extra. Can you tell I'm hungry?? lol

 

[theregoesjb]

subject definitely does not have to be completely white. I like the ice cream idea, i'm open to any suggestions!

Light the background however you want. Light the subject different, keep in mind the one stop rule.

can you give a little more detail, I don't have any photo lights... can i use the flash?

does one stop rule mean to over/underexpose by one stop?

 

[Sammie_Lou]

I'm probably putting too much thought into this lol but if you use vanilla bean ice cream, it'll have those little black dots to give it something extra. A friend of mine went on a fancy date with her boyfriend over the weekend and posted a picture of her dessert on Facebook. It was a white plate with vanilla ice cream and some other little white sauces and things like that making a cool design on the plate. I'll see if I can get her permission to post her picture up here for you to see. If she says it's okay, I'll post it after work.

 

[DiskoJoe]

a tp shot sounds like sh*t. Think outside of the bowl!

 

[gsgary]

This may fool her, this is white paper shot on white background (thinking outside the box)

 

[Derrel]

Eggs in a styrofoam egg carton...there is nice texture on the egg shells, a little bit on the styrofoam and there are wonderful hills and valleys in the egg carton's egg-holders. Eggs are wonderfully shaped for showing lighting character and direction. They are in fact, a fairly common instructional subject in commercial and small-product photography lighting exercises.

 

[Sammie_Lou]

This is my friend's picture that I thought of when I saw this thread. =)