Creating Backgrounds
Clean, simple backgrounds work best for product shots. My favorite clean background is created from three pieces of white foam board. I use one piece as the base and two others as walls to create an area for the item and a surface for the light to bounce off.
Here you can see the white foam board box photographed against a red rug to show the construction. I taped the back together so the seams are as tight as possible.
What’s great about using white foam board is that it is easy to get, comes in a variety of sizes, and is relatively inexpensive. The box shown here was made with three pieces of 16x20-inch foam board that ...
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