{"id":184,"date":"2021-01-19T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelleowens.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2021-01-19T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:50:18","slug":"studio-backdrop-vibrant-olive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/19\/studio-backdrop-vibrant-olive\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Backdrop: Vibrant Olive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.<\/p>-Pedro Calderon de la Barca<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A three-quarter length portrait of Andrea. I particularly like how the dress matches her skin. The green backdrop has a touch of peachy orange tint to it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A couple of years ago I purchased an olive green backdrop<\/a>. I really liked how it photographed but didn’t use it often because it is small measuring about 4′ x 6′. It’s fine for photographing one person, but even then, most of the time I had to expand the backdrop when retouching the image in Photoshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The less time I need to spend in Photoshop the better. People seem to think there is a magic wand in Photoshop (which ironically there is a tool in Photoshop called magic wand but it’s powers are limited to making selections and masking… in other words, not a Harry Potter-style magic wand). All that sitting during retouching is slowly killing me – not joking – so the more I can get the image right in camera, the better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura, a Wise Women: The 50 Over 50 Project<\/a> participant, included her daughters, Valerie and Andrea, in two sets during her photoshoot. They were the first to be photographed on this hand painted backdrop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a long way of communicating to you that the goal was to create a larger olive green backdrop that replicated the color of the small backdrop so I could photograph more than one person against it. As I described in the Old Masters Brown<\/a> blog post, I brought the olive backdrop outside along with paint samples from Home Depot to assist with selecting the closest colors for the new backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this backdrop I used a big brush to pound the wet colors together on the canvas to roughly blend and add texture. I’d refine areas using a sea sponge to blend. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The end result, interestingly enough, produced a more vibrant green than I anticipated. The smaller olive green backdrop is subdued and delivers almost an Old Masters oil painting tone for a background. The olive backdrop that I painted delivers a bigger punch of color that I did not expect, but quite like. It’s not what I was aiming for, but I’m happy nonetheless. Because this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interested in learning more about what the studio has to offer? Click on the following links to jump to the studio\u2019s portfolio of images, and download a digital copy of the studio\u2019s Magazine and Style Guide<\/em> to learn how to prepare for your photoshoot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to the studio’<\/a>s<\/a> portfolio.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to the studio’<\/a>s<\/a> Free Magazine and Style Guide. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca A couple of years ago I purchased an olive green backdrop. I really liked how it photographed but didn’t use it often because it is small measuring about 4′ x 6′. It’s fine for photographing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backdrops-for-photoshoots","category-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifactps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}