Pictures: how do you get a dark background in selfies?
I seen some people take selfies like this and the background is really dark. How do you do that? Is there an iPhone app? Please help.
It is a photographic technique where the background is black, the person is placed at least four feet from it and the light that is falling on the person is placed so that it does not fall on the background
Most of the time they're in a room with not much light and then they use their flash.
This is shotted against the light.
You can have a try. It's easy.
You shoot with the camera settings such that you kill the ambient light and you have the flash close to the subject and the background much further away. That gives you rapid light falloff. The light is usually controlled from spilling everywhere.
That shot you posted was not taken with on camera flash. The shadow is too soft and the catch lights in the eye are quite large. I would say that was taken in a studio with off camera flash in a softbox.
Usually, indoors shooting at the max sync speed for flash and having the aperture around f8 or so will turn the room black.
Like this;
Hmm… Pose in front of a rushing black rhino?
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