Studio equipment is expensive and you don’t want to be stuck with just one or two backgrounds. If I could own only one background for portraits, it would have to be gray. With a minimal amount of effort, you can turn a gray backdrop into white, or black or pretty much any color you can imagine. You can use seamless paper backgrounds or vinyl backdrops, or even gray material or gray paint on a wall.
If you keep light off the background – it will turn black. If you add enough light to the gray background it will turn white. And if you add colored gels to your background strobes, you can make that gray background any color you want to.
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Gray Seamless Background Paper:
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Gray Velour @ Joanne Fabrics:
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28 responses to “The Best Color Photography Background For Portraits Is Gray – Studio Backdrop Tutorial”
I cannot thank you enough for this great video that added a lot to my photography knowledge! You're amazing Joe! Thank you so much, Stay always well, God bless you!
That is intelligent sir.
Thank you. This was very helpful
Ah-ha. How fabulous were these tips and tricks. Thank you, Joe. 🥰
An outstanding presenter. Very effective and efficient. I watched this episode multiple times and I do have a couple of grey backdrops (hanging and pop up types). But I watch it just to learn how your studio uses it and how you present it. Thank you.
This is amazing! Great video and explanations!
I'm building a multipurpose studio in nj.. I needed to hear this
Thanks Joe! , always the best way to learn, direct and concise.
Can some help me to decide between Thunder Gray or Charcoal seamless paper?,
(Im focus in get colored background than get a white background. THANKS )
This month catchphrase "Great doesn't need to be expensive"!
Thankyou so mush studio master 😇
Joe I appreciate video so much thank you, i dig your style
As a teacher of a different subject and not knowing any of this info, I show many how-to videos. This video is the best, most informed video I have ever seen.
Awesome!! It's really helpful for choosing the color! Thank you very much!!
Note: if you mix red and green light you won't get brown light you'll get white light.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO Thank you so much Joe for these AMAZING TIPS – You ROCK BABY BABY BABY
the way you explain things and the tips you give are always the best. you give so much detail its great. thanks for all your help.
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Joe, any recommendations for a good/cheap strobe light?
Excelente video, me encantan estos consejos, asi si aprendo al segundo y todo es posible!!!!!
Which gray from savage are you using in this demo
Great tip in a great video. Keep practicing your Spanish, for the next test with something more complicated like. "Hasta la vista baby" ;- )
Vinyl or paper?
Hi, thanks for the video, i see the studio has wooden floor that is kind of shiny, has this been a problem with the lights or strobes reflecting on the subjet or all around the room? I have the same type of floor at my home studio trailer and the roof is only 8 feet hight and is painted light beige, horrible. What would you recomend to put on the floor to not make it reflect light,,, any idea? Thanks in advance.
Love it, fabulous video clip, thank you 🙂
This is a great video, thank you!!!!!!
And if I could only find GRAY TINT – STORM GRAY – SLATE GRAY …. What would be the selection?
Great tutorial, this is the first I have seen where a black flag is not used to stop gel coloring face, would this be because the subject is set away from backdrop? would you need to use flags if you moved subject and light closer to the background, or is there a trick to avoid needing flags? 🙂
I thought the thumbnail was Logan Paul lmaooo