I love cool gear. Who doesn’t. But a great photographer is a great problem solver and believe it or not – you probably have a lot of really cool portrait and glamour backgrounds sitting around your house and you don’t even know it. I want to show you a few DIY glamour photography backgrounds that I use from time to time. These backgrounds can also be used as DIY Portrait backgrounds .One is simply a bed comforter and the other is an inflatable camping bed.
The comforter is a creme colored queen sized comforter that I purchased at a local discount store for less than twenty bucks on a clearance sale. I was excited to get the creme color because it would allow me to cheat when I do my backlighting technique for black and white boudoir shots. With all the light behind the subject and then exposing for the shadows having the off-white color of the comforter helps to keep a little detail in the comforter. A white comforter will over expose and loose the details much faster
I also use it as a background for portraits and glamour shots. In the video I will show you a lighting glamour lighting tutorial that can also be used for portrait lighting. There is a three light and two light option using a simple clamshell set-up and a rim light.
If you like to shoot glamour and DIY photography gear is your thing – be sure to check out this video.
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Such genius !
Great video as usual. I really enjoy and learn a lot. Thank you.
Great video! Question: what is your recommended power settings (or ratio between the top & bottom light) for your clamshell setup?
Now I'm looking around my house for ideas to create backgrounds 😊
Is there any particular way you set up the comforter when your model lays on it? Messy it up a bit, keep it fixed and let them pull it in, etc?
You are an interesting character Joe and are certainly putting a lot of effort into your videos which provides great quality content. One can certainly learn a lot from your channel, so,well done.
very nice video
Happy New Year Joe. I'm really enjoying your videos. They are always filled with great content and advice. Thanks. I just purchased a few meters of grey material to use as a background for my improvised home studio. It can be grey, black, white or colored pretty easily with lighting adjustments and/or gels and it cost less than $25 so I am looking forward to trying that out.
Love it Joe Happy 2017! What happend with your usually f8 fstop. Why one stop down for these portrait.
Joe, your video and graphics are on point.. Are you doing these yourself?
hey joe, nice tutorial thank and happy new year!
Great video. I have a suggestion though, I think you spend too much time explaining the exif data. Instead of cutting to a separate scene verbally/visually showing us the settings… simply put the info visually in the same scene as the lighting set up. No verbal information necessary.
great material . happy NYear
Amazing
Thanks for this Joe.
I'm trying to help set up a one speedlight glamour shot using a small shoot through umbrella in a very confined indoor space, and using a Canon 1200D with 18-55mm kit lens. They have minimum props. It's in another country, which complicates matters but I will let you know if they manage it.
Now, that's a cost effective and creative idea for backgrounds,Photography need not be expensive, just use your imagination, thanks Joe for getting our creative juices flowing for 2017! Much appreciated! 😎 👍
Thank you for another very useful and practical tip, Joe! 🙂
Joe another great video! It's really nice to see you use everyday items that demonstrate you don't need a fancy studio to do such great work!
Yes!! Another amazing and informative video. Joe you've done it again. Happy New Year to you and yours
short but sweet.. I really need to try to get that 3d-studio software