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Background Advice
When shooting brown or darker-skinned female models, what type and color of
background will provide the most versatility? Right now, I only have two backgrounds...bright white and a blackout background. I'm looking to purchase another color (old masters brown-ish type color maybe?) but I want to buy something that will look good with darker-skinned latina or African-American women. Any advice? Sean |
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Background Advice
"Sean Ras" wrote
When shooting [darker-skinned latina or African-American women, what type and color of background will provide the most versatility? Well brown is a very low value unsaturated yellow / yellow-orange. A light unsaturated blue such as a pale sky blue would be a good choice as it complementary. A pale blue is also a very versatile color. Very few things on this earth are pale sky blue (look around yourself right now - not much, is there ? [don't look at the sky, that's cheating]) and so it will contrast with almost anything. Whatever you do don't have the background either the same value (shade of grey if you were shooting B&W) or the same color as the subject: a medium dark-brown/yellow mottled background and you will be photographing Ms. Invisible. Look in a black magazine with lots of ads - Ebony - and see what background looks best to you. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics. psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/ |
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