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    BACKGROUNDS
   It’s necessary to provide oneself with different backgrounds. It’s not good when the background distracts from the thing being shot. Dark backgrounds are used for light objects, light backgrounds – for dark objects. Fabric, paper, cardboard can be used as a background material. It’s better to have plenty of backgrounds in stock, but I use mostly in my work three specially designed texture-free dull sheets of plastic: white, grey and black. I put small objects directly on the background. And here the advantages of these ground-colours become apparent. The background texture becomes too noticeable when shooting in the macro mode on paper or fabric. It distracts from the object itself. Moreover, the shadows of the object, falling on the background, spoil the picture. You can avoid this by putting the object of the shooting on a high-quality glass sheet and put a sheet of white paper under the glass in a short distance. It will serve in such case both as a defocused background and reflector of ambient opposite light. You can get rid of the shadows by putting a sheet of white plastic on the glass and backlighting it from below so that the shadows of the objects become imperceptible. As a matter of fact such construction constitutes a transparent table which is used by all application cameramen nowadays. A transparent table is an ideal way out in such situations (See photo 2, 3).

 
The shooting is carried out on a transparent table. A spot with blue filter is pointed to the plastic from below.