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Looking at portable backdrop options and setup

Looking at portable backdrop options and setup

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Looking at portable backdrop options and setup

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- We've picked out our room. Now we're ready to start building our set, our backdrop. We're going to set up here for a simple portrait shoot, just a head and shoulders kind of thing, so we don't need a tremendous amount of space. We're ordering this in this chapter as, you set up your background and then you light. In general that's true, because you don't know what kind of lights you're going to need until you know what your scene is. But you're thinking about both at the same time. It's not a straight linear process. I've set up this background here. Earlier I had mentioned when I was walking through the room that we've got a nice big space, and so maybe we could put a backdrop across here. I've angled it this way because we've got a big window right there, and I'm thinking when I start lighting that this could be a good key light. So I'm setting up for that, and that's what I mean. I'm thinking about lighting while I'm building my set. This backdrop is easy enough to move around…

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