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Lighting a backdrop
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Ok so I am having some problems lighting my backdrop. I Only have twio lights and they are countounis light sources. I have tried different eays of lighting the backdrop but keep getting a shadow on it. Can anyone help? Is it wrong postiting of my lights, is it the flash on my camera, wrong settings???
Thank you all in advance foryour help.
O i am using a canon eos 20d and the lighs are 33″ Umbrella Photo Lighting Continuous 4 Lights
Easy solution no. 1 is to move the subject forward from the background and/or lift the lights a little higher (though this won’t work in tight spaces), you should be aiming for at least 6 feet or more from the background at the very least. If the lights have variable power and you’re looking for highkey with a white background just dial back the main light and use a reflector as fill, boost the background light to full power. If the lights aren’t variable, just move the main/key light much further back from the subject and the background light closer to the background (this is what I use for highkey video which means I have to use the modeling lights and move them around to get the look right).
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