Best of of lighting seamless

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Hey guys :)

Ok, so i have a white seamless background, a model, a offcamera flash to the front through a softbox, now i want to get the background to blow out to white.

Is the best way, to just plonk two continuous lights behind the model onto the background, or should i use strobes instead? Just after the best/cheapest way of doing it :)

Any advice would be super duper :)
 
If you have daylight colour continuous lights it's theoretically possible, but the exposure would be incredibly long. You'd have to shoot in a darkened room, the flash would then expose the subject and the continuous lights would expose the background. If the room isn't dark then some of the ambient (existing) light would also reach the model, causing blur.

If the lights aren't daylight colour then you'd need an even longer exposure, otherwise the background would show as a light yellow.

There are 2 practical answers - either use flash on the background or don't have a lit background - sorry!
 
Hi. I googled this
Seems possible, never done it with just one light, though.
 
That will work perfectly.
 
tattywelshie said:
Great stuff! Now to search for good quality, reasonably priced strobes! :)
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I've just bought the Elemental Genesis twin head set-up at £350 and I have to say I've been mightily impressed with both the quality and service. Their after sales is superb - anything you're trying to achieve, either ring up and discuss, or send a photo of what you're trying to get to and they'll tell you how to set the lighting up - Simples. :thumbs:


Gareth
 
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I've just bought the Elemental Genesis twin head set-up at £350 and I have to say I've been mightily impressed with both the quality and service. Their after sales is superb - anything you're trying to achieve, either ring up and discuss, or send a photo of what you're trying to get to and they'll tell you how to set the lighting up - Simples. :thumbs:


Gareth
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Great stuff! That's within my budget, where did you get it from?
 
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It sounds like you're heading in the right direction, but when you've got everything together, that's usually when the problems start - especially if you want to do full length people ;)

Lots of threads about it here.
 
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