Feb 07 2008
Using Great Digital Photography Backdrops
With digital photography, you can take pictures anywhere and add spectacular digital photography backdrops to your pictures after you take them, in the “digital darkroom,” also known as your computer. Or use fabulous computer-generated graphics printed on wide-format canvas or muslin.
Standard Digital Photography Backdrops
The same backdrops that look great with traditional photography also look good with digital photography. A backdrop of plain white muslin makes a dramatic field for any portrait. Color washed muslin sheets in cool shades emulate marble, granite, and a cloudy sky, while warm shades bring to mind earth tones, blue skies, and desert sands, making them both suitable for digital photography backdrops.
Custom Digital Photography Scenery Backdrops
These backdrops are computer painted with custom digital photography scenes. Your subject poses against a realistic looking ivy-covered gate, a whimsical castle wall, or a giant sports stadium.
Digital photography scenic backdrops are especially popular for wedding photographs, as the bride and groom can appear to be posing for their wedding pictures in a great variety of indoor churches and chapels or outdoor gazebos or meadows.
Green Screen Digital Photography Backdrops
Professionals use a Chromakey green screen backdrop to make the backgrounds in their pictures disappear. After photographing your subject in front of a green screen, use green screen software to make the green in your picture disappear. Now you have a blank canvas, and virtually any digital photography backdrop can be superimposed behind the star of your picture.
Digital Photography Backdrop Support
All these backdrops must be supported by a backdrop stand, which consists of a series of cross braces and a series of vertical supports. Backdrop stands cost about $100, but they are well worth the investment as one backdrop stand will work with a wide variety of digital photography backdrops.
Digital Backdrops
The real fun about digital photography is how easy it is to add different backdrops after the picture is taken. Backdrops are available on CD or online in such a wide variety of themes and subjects that it is impossible to list them all here.
