Re: Images on web sites

>I can pull the images into Photoshop and spend hours and hours cropping out
>the background, but I don't want to. So the question is, does anyone have
>any advice on techniques to take pictures to make it easy to eliminate the
>background? Some fancy Hollywood "blue screen" technique. I have tried
>taking the picture against a solid background but still the shadows always
>seem to get in the way of the background showing up as a solid shade thus
>making it more difficult to eliminate in Photoshop. Let me know if you have
>any advice, it would be greatly appreciated and save me a huge headache.


The technique to do this is to use a 400 mm lens and a shallow depth
of field with the color of background you want in the distance. 

But why do you think it would be easier to retake the images. That 
could take a couple of hours per image to setup and take. 

Dick

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