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Making the background disappear


I am taking pictures of fishing lures for my website. I have taken these pictures with a white cloth background. My question is, how do I make this background disappear and leave the lures showing?


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February 25, 2005

 

Andrew Laverghetta
  Hmm, I'm not quite sure how the lures are but maybe I can help. Do you have any saw horses that you can put something like a mop handle across them, then could you hang the lure from the handle with a fishing line? Then you could use the white cloth as a backdrop? You can get in close so hopefully the backdrop will be out of focus?
Maybe you could buy a white piece of poster board instead, so there is no texture. Then you could put a strong light source on both sides of the lure so there are no shadows? Hope this helps! I wasn't quite sure what you meant by making the background disappear. But like I was saying, if you could hang the lures and put the cloth far behind, then the cloth would be out of focus.


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