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Will asks: I’ve been experimenting with shooting talent/spokesperson against a white backdrop and I’m having a hard time getting the results I need. I’ve looked at using a white background – sheet/roll of paper, then over exposing the background but the lighting for such a setup looks more difficult (and expensive) not to mention the fact that my ‘auto’ camcorder will probably try and correctly expose the brighter background rather than the foreground subject.
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