In this project, I took pictures of people on white and black backgrounds. Using a shutter speed of 1/13 of a second, it made it look like the backgrounds were infinite. The ISO was higher to capture more light. For the black backgrounds, we used a lower ISO so there would be less light captured so shadows on the background wouldn’t show. If the shadows did show or if I couldn’t see the subject’s face clear enough, I used Photoshop to turn up the brightness. All the white background pictures are in black and white.
As we were taking pictures, we found that placing the light in a certain position didn’t always work.We had to cover some of the light with our arms to prevent it from showing on the lens or creating a glare.
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