Chalkboard background?

I'm doing a maternity shoot next week. I wantet to include a photo with a chalkboard background with writing on it like how I've seen all over the internet.

Can someone give me advice, tutorial, or steps on how to do it? I believe they are photoshopped right? Subjects are shot on probably a gray background. For the chalk board, they just photograph a mini chalkboard and then composite the subjects into it in photoshop?

Example from Kelli Adams Photography:

I don't know about where you live, but here there was* a specific paint for chalkboards sold in hardware stores.
If you are expecting to do this kind of photo more than once, you can buy a can and paint a wall.

*I am using the past tense because in the last years whiteboards became very common. I'm not sure if this paint is still sold in Rio. BTW, I'm a teacher.

select tool on your subjects / refine edges / add background / clean it up.

photoshop cs6

Alternatively you can youtube some background changes. that's how i'm learning.

This is a composite image made in photoshop. as Freeman says just search on youtube for a video tutorial on how to do this. Good luck!

fashionrider wrote in post #15948290
I'm doing a maternity shoot next week. I wantet to include a photo with a chalkboard background with writing on it like how I've seen all over the internet.

Hope you don't take it the wrong way, but there's enough of photography plagiarism as it is today. Would you be proud of just copying someone else' creative work instead of your own creations? Personally I find that cliche and in a few year's time the family will wish they didn't had that photo. Much like the babies on over-sized cabbages and goose wings.

delhi wrote in post #16185727
Hope you don't take it the wrong way, but there's enough of photography plagiarism as it is today. Would you be proud of just copying someone else' creative work instead of your own creations? Personally I find that cliche and in a few year's time the family will wish they didn't had that photo. Much like the babies on over-sized cabbages and goose wings.

don't worry, not taking it the wrong way at all as I know what you're talking about. It definitely is cliche, but clients just love it. It's just like when I do maternity shoots, ALL couples want to make a heart on the mom's belly. It's not something I can just say, "It's cliche and i refuse to be a part of that". I do that and i lose business

Perhaps your portfolio hasn't conveyed what sort of photographer that you are? Unless you want to convey the message that you re-create images from other photographers. Like those heart shape stuff or god forbid selective coloring photos.

Do you know on what basis do people hire you? Price? Artistic merit? Or basically just to recreate some sort of photo found on Pinterest or Walmart Studios? Could it be a trust factor? That you are competent enough with a camera but not sure if you can pull off something artistic therefore client just tells you what to shoot?

Are you being hired to take photos or make them?

So sorry if this has gone off tangent. There really aren't much new photo composition these days under the sun. But at least try to make yours as original as you can. I trawl through the many postings here and it is staggering that there are so many photographers' "paid work" which are basically facsimile of one another.

delhi wrote in post #16186373
Perhaps your portfolio hasn't conveyed what sort of photographer that you are? Unless you want to convey the message that you re-create images from other photographers. Like those heart shape stuff or god forbid selective coloring photos.

Do you know on what basis do people hire you? Price? Artistic merit? Or basically just to recreate some sort of photo found on Pinterest or Walmart Studios? Could it be a trust factor? That you are competent enough with a camera but not sure if you can pull off something artistic therefore client just tells you what to shoot?

Are you being hired to take photos or make them?

So sorry if this has gone off tangent. There really aren't much new photo composition these days under the sun. But at least try to make yours as original as you can. I trawl through the many postings here and it is staggering that there are so many photographers' "paid work" which are basically facsimile of one another.

yeah sorry I don't have the energy to continue with this. I've seen many discussions regarding this and they can go on forever.

fashionrider wrote in post #16187734
yeah sorry I don't have the energy to continue with this. I've seen many discussions regarding this and they can go on forever.

I wouldn't either. I don't remember you asking for business model help.