Thursday, February 13, 2014

DIY Photography Photobooths and Backdrops

If you're a poor photographer like me, all you have at your disposal is the stuff around your own home. And maybe a few things from a cheap gift store like the Reject Shop or Daiso. You can make cool backgrounds for your portrait photography to hide ugly walls and doors or distracting furniture! Wrapping paper, fabric, blankets, crepe paper, streamers, tinsel, cardboard, curtains, newspaper and anything else you can think of can be used to set up a studio feel in your house! If you like to do photos of small things (eg: figurines) as I do, then even little scraps of textured/colored paper and fabric can be useful!

Here are some great tutorials to give you ideas!

http://apopofpretty.com/how-to-make-a-diy-photo-booth/

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2013/09/27/diy-wax-paper-backdrop/

http://www.marvelousmommy.com/2013/08/how-to-bokeh-photography-backdrop/


And some of my own photography ~


As an example, here is a background made from a scarf!


This image was made by loading up a photo from the web on my TV (via my laptop) and placing the figure in front. I used some blue cellophane over flash/lamps/torches to cast blue light to match the background image.