hi key experiment

No, not talking about cropping or framing in a way that your feet aren't in there. Changing the camera distance will change the angles and move the wall line that is now at you knees lower. Kind of a nitpick, but since this is a learning experience

As for the lighting on the background, I'm looking at how the photo blends, or doesn't blend, into the forum background. In the upper right the photo is lighter than the webpage background, but in other areas it is the same. Again just a nitpick.

okay, now i see it...

i think the background lights have a slight downward tilt and the light is falling off a little bit. im not at home to check but if i remember to, i will!

ill have to see what i can do with the camera distance. running out of space right now...

Ltdave wrote in post #18646488
swapped to reflector umbrellas vs the shoot through and made sure that the light wasnt shining on me, and that i was ahead of the background lighting...

i ran my mainlight and camera as far away as i could to make sure i was not getting any extraneous lighting from the background lights...

without any more lights (only shooting with 3) i couldnt get rid of the "shadow" on the floor in front of me. if i bumped up the mainlight, i over exposed me and it took a lot of light to wipe out that shadow...

i think this is much better...

sorry for the sourpuss expression. my sciatica is acting up and im a bit tired from a busy weekend already

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Notice that there is some spill from the background onto your cheek, including a shadow line which suggests that your main light is not providing the same output as the background. also there is a bright spot on your belly camera left that also suggests too close to the background. There doesn't not appear to be any lighting from the background lights on the subject. That's good.

Sounds lie you're out of space so that's going to be a limitation. Might want to keep moving away from the background and doing less than full figure to see how far from background works best relative to lighting ratios.
Without changing the light positions or power take a step closer to the camera and take a test shot, look at lighting. Then move another step closer and see what it looks like. Probably after one or two steps you'll have to decrease power on the main and correspondingly on the background which will help as well.

Not sure which YouTube videos you watched. This is one of the best: https://www.youtube.co​m …8mE4&ab_channel​=ZackArias

There is also a second part.

White seamless isn't that hard.

1. You need to have space if you want to do full length
2. Don't throw globs of light on the bg, 1 stop higher than subject exposure is more than enough
3. Use flags to block bg light coming back to camera or the subject unless you want that affect
4. Measure the bg at various points to make it similar in exposure.