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Re: Best Robot Desktop Photos

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Originally Posted by Travis Covington View Post
The backdrop is white seamless paper. It is about 8' wide and can be purchased at most photography stores. Otherwise we use qty 2 200watt/s studio strobes with umbrellas (bounced off of the inside, not soft lit) and some photoshop magic. Photoshop is only used to remove some of the gradients that appear in the white background and to fix any color cast in the polycarb, etc due to the ambient lighting.

Here is a picture of us setting up the backdrop, etc.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...61689910_n.jpg
I have often wondered how you get the polycarb to look perfect - no flash reflection, etc. off of it. I guess it's a combination of pretty even lighting from the flashes, and some nice editing.
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