Poo-Poo Platter

I’ve been reading Zach Arias’s latest blog posts about his awesome seamless white background and decided to apply some similar lighting principles to create a pure white background in my dining room. I only have room for head and shoulder shots, but it works for this exercise.

The exposure is pretty close to what I had in-camera. The only post is a little bit of contrast and brightness adjustment on my face (a bit shiny for what I wanted). I also touched up the corners a little as well. My background lighting wasn’t absolutely 100% perfect, and there was a tiny bit of light falloff. It still worked out ok for the shot.

Here’s a diagram of my lighting setup:

And here’s what it looks like in my dining room:

Setting up the lighting was ridiculous easy to do. I just wish I had more room, so I could have more control over light distances. I’d also like more space so I could, oh, I don’t know, do a jump shot with this lighting. :)