A simple white seamless background is a very versatile tool for you to have whether you are doing photography or video. In this video Zack Arias walk you through the space considerations, gear needed, and how exposure and light works when taking a white seamless from black to white. For this first part he use hot lights to show all of this in real time. It’s also useful if you are wanting to set this up for video. In part two I walk you through the same process but with strobes for still photography.
This sort of thing requires a bit of space. Zack's current studio has an area that is 16 feet wide by 30 feet long and that’s about as small of a space as he want to work in for full length white seamless shoots. Zack has set this up in a variety of locations from board rooms to parking decks to 5,000 square foot studios and I can say that the more room you have and the wider of a white background you have (read cyc wall) then the easier all of this is to do. As your space shrinks challenges to this are introduced. When you light up that big white background it becomes a huge light source that starts lighting up everything around it. The smaller the space you have the more light you will have bouncing and wrapping around, and it can sometimes be difficult to get it under control.
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