Professional setup for environment portraits
Professional setup for environment portraits | ||
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The key to great backgrounds for portraits is 'less is more.' If you're shooting an environmental portrait, a photo taken on location in someone's home or office, etc, to get that pro look, it's not what you do to the background—it's what you take away from the background that makes it work. You want to have as few distracting elements in the background as you can, so either position your subject on a very simple, uncluttered background to begin with, or if that's not possible, remove as many distracting elements as your subject will let you get away with. Don't take this lightly—to create a really great environmental portrait, it can't just be the foreground that works. The whole photo has to work together, and by choosing or creating a sparse, uncluttered background, your chances of having a winner go way up. | ||