{"id":10158,"date":"2025-08-14T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:36:32","slug":"experimenting-with-backgrounds-using-black-muslin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10158","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with backgrounds: using black ‘muslin’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often have odd ideas that I like to experiment with. This set of photos is using a black muslin-like material as a backdrop that allows an impression of the view behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were all taken in our conservatory using my wife’s flowering plants forming the subject and other plants for the background. I also include some of the set-ups to give context to the images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example 1: Potted flowers with the background showing some detail. Taken at f8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Set-up for 1: This shows the setup for the above example<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Example 2: Close-up view of the potted flowers with the background showing some detail. Taken at f16.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Set-up for 2: This shows the setup for the second example.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below I show the background without any subject, just to get a better feel for what is happening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example 3: Just the background focussing on the material. Taken at f4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Example 4: Just the background focussing through the material to the plants behind. Taken at f4.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think this technique has potential but I need to experiment more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often have odd ideas that I like to experiment with. This set of photos is using a black muslin-like material as a backdrop that allows an impression of the view behind. These were all taken in our conservatory using my wife’s flowering plants forming the subject and other plants for the background. I also … Continue reading “Experimenting with backgrounds: using black ‘muslin’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,9,117,100,3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatory","category-flowers","category-house-plants","category-photo-effects","category-photography","category-tests-and-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}