[thelist] cropping images or photography

[Tony Crockford]

At 10:05 on Tuesday, 01 Jun 2004, A Maynes wrote:

> Hi
>
> This is the aim, tat is to eliminate using ps by taking a product shot
> with a 'white background' however different colour tempertures do not
> make it easy to select the right white balance and even with the 'white
> balance' set correctly in its raw mode the image still have a hue of
> blue ot red depending on ?
>
> The camera is a finepix fuji S602zoom


You need a lot of light - a lot of light -  a serious amount of light  
acting directly on a background - preferably one that curves away from the  
ground up to make an original shot with a white background.

You also need to ensure that the camera exposes based on the light on your  
object, not the background (set spot exposure, rather than average)

all your light should be from a similar temperature source and then  
manually set that.

here's the perfect article:

http://www.ephotozine.com/techniques/viewtechnique.cfm?recid=195

hth

Tony