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benjieO · Apr 9, 2008

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One Sister · Apr 9, 2008

The hi key shots are great. Actually, all your shots are pretty amazing. Shooting a whole body or, worse yet, multiple bodies, on white is the bane of my existence. I always have to do a lot of pp on these types of shots. Did you do a lot of pp on the white back drops? I always get a lot of light dropping off the edges which has to be fixed later. I use a lot of diffusion on the back drop and have tried the back drop light on a boom, or low, diffused and not diffused and I still get the same mess. I have followed the standard lighting ratios to get my white really white to no avail. Am I given to understand you don't light the back drop at all???? As much as you can share would be most appreciated.

benjieO · Apr 9, 2008

One Sister said:
The hi key shots are great. Actually, all your shots are pretty amazing. Shooting a whole body or, worse yet, multiple bodies, on white is the bane of my existence. I always have to do a lot of pp on these types of shots. Did you do a lot of pp on the white back drops? I always get a lot of light dropping off the edges which has to be fixed later. I use a lot of diffusion on the back drop and have tried the back drop light on a boom, or low, diffused and not diffused and I still get the same mess. I have followed the standard lighting ratios to get my white really white to no avail. Am I given to understand you don't light the back drop at all???? As much as you can share would be most appreciated.

thank you so much for the wonderful comments!

I do light my backdrop with two strobes that are diffused by a 60cm by 60cm softbox on 3/4 power (i think) . yes, i do get a mess at times but my PP workflow does not take more that 15 minutes per image despite using multiple softwares for my PP including getting a perfect white backdrop.