Make Your Fashion Images Pop

Using a colourful backdrop is a great way to enhance your fashion shoot, and make a bold statement.

Fashion and beauty photographer Lindsay Adler shows us how to use a colourful backdrop to create beautiful fashion images in her latest video tutorial. Using Tangelo, one of the brightest backdrops by Savage Paper, Lindsay took the wardrobe as inspiration for her background and lighting choice.

Before choosing the backdrop, Lindsay selected the dress and model. She used the rich saturated colour palette of the dress to inform all of our other creative decisions.

When choosing a background, I go to colour theory. Do I want to go for complimentary colours or contrast, or a similar hue. In this instance, and for the overall direction of the shoot, I decided to go with a bright orangey background from Savage Seamless (actual name is Tangelo #82 — great great colour).

Once she had the orange from the model’s dress covered, she was able to showcase the pink/magentas of the dress by fastened pink gels to her two rim lights positioned high on either side of the model. She then put small white umbrellas on them to add texture to the scene. Lindsay then used one of her go to modifiers on her main light, a magnum reflector, to emulate the feeling of sunlight. This sunny light emphasised the colours even more.

She then used a Black Pro Mist filter on her camera to make the highlights in the image come to life.

Lindsay’s go-to set-up is the Canon EOS R5 with RF 24-105mm lens, and of course a TetherPro cable so she could see the final results and adjust things as needed.