HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM BACKDROP
WITH ANTHONY ROMANO
What's up everybody? My name's Anthony Romano and I'm a portrait photographer based in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm going to show you how creating this one element is going to make a unique impact on your client's next event photos.
When talking with my client, Miriam over at Messiah about how we can make this event a little bit more unique and still branded towards them, we tossed around a bunch of ideas and something that I came up with and thought would be a really unique way to spotlight what they do is to take one of the patterns that they use in their furniture and bring it to life on a backdrop. During our initial discovery process, Miriam and I kind of sat and once we had this idea of taking one of the patterns and bringing them to life on one of the backdrops, we went through the different options that they have available for when customers order their custom furniture. They have these beautiful woven patterns and some are really busy, some are really vibrant, some are really intricate, and we tried to think which one is going to translate best as a backdrop in a photo shoot scenario.
Once we had the pattern decided on, I knew exactly who I needed to reach out to make it come to life, and that was BackgroundTown.
I've been working with them for the past few months, getting sample backdrops and testing some stuff out, and I thought this was going to be a great opportunity to make something that was unique and also I know was going to be high quality. I worked with my rep over at BackgroundTown and we kind of talked through what I needed, what we wanted to get done, the appropriate file format and the scale and the size, and whether or not there was going to be a little pocket at the top so I could slide the rod of the backdrop stand through. They really handled all the details and helped me kind of think through what was going to work best for this scenario, and that was super, super helpful.
I highly recommend giving yourself an option like this to make something a little bit more unique. Like I said, it doesn't have to be for an event. It could be for your next photo shoot, maybe the location you had planned on is no longer available and you need something that's kind of similar so you can create your own and really get creative with backdrops and something like this that you can pitch to a client is going to be really awesome. So I'm excited to see what y'all create with it, and I know that I'm going to be creating a lot more custom backdrops for whether it's my portrait popups or just regular photo shoots in general. I hope you all found this video helpful and see how you can take just this one element, a backdrop that we all use a bajillion times and get more creative, get more unique, and even get more custom with it for your next client event or your next photo shoot. Thanks so much for watching and I'll catch you on the next one.
HOW I GOT THE SHOT
I used a Sony a7iii camera with Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 Lens·. The Lighting Equipment I used was, Godox AD600 Pro and Photek SoftLighter Umbrella with Removable 8mm Shaft (46")
