The background in a photo, particularly a closeup photo, needs to be very clean and not distracting to the subject. If you can insert a handmade background behind your subject that can provide a nice clean background. Indoor photography can certainly use these backgrounds too.
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To make your own backgrounds, find a hedge, wall, leaves, etc that you feel has a nice blend of colors. Then set your camera’s lens to its widest aperture. In addition,
defocus the entire scene so it becomes one nice blur of color.
I suggest printing these on matte paper to reduce any possible glare… even better is on canvas or fabric.
Great technique Susan. The leaves in the before composition is nice. It will be hard to find a blend of colors that good! Thanks Paul
Hi Paul,
Once you do a few of these, you can spot good possibilities. Avoid hot spots of white through the leaves or big areas of shadow… it’s fun!