Why is white so hard?! CC please :)

What I would do is:

1. Use seemless paper right behind the subject
2. Only use your flash as a main light. Make it come from top of camera with reflector underneath for some fill if you need it. Kind od boring but works for kids as their skin is good.

Example shot, here he is lying but you get the idea. I only used one light in a medium softbox.

Another trick you can do is use foam core V-flats and position them like

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Edited:- I don't know how to enter more than 1 space. So picture doesn't make sense. There is one V -flat on left, one on right, with their sides joining in the back to make the background. You can conver the stop with foam core also. Position the subject in the center. Now use one flash. Everything being white will make light bounce around and make it nice.

Here is an example shot in our little powder room. Only one flash, on camera but bounced.

Thanks for all the help! Any one have any cc on the photo's besides the off white bg?

I was thinking about you the other day and missing your posts! These are very good in my humble opinion. I also enjoyed reading the suggestions others with experience in white on white have shared. The boys are growing up so fast!

Pixerfun wrote in post #9718753
I was thinking about you the other day and missing your posts! These are very good in my humble opinion. I also enjoyed reading the suggestions others with experience in white on white have shared. The boys are growing up so fast!

Awww...thanks Ann! We have all had a yucky stomach virus and colds one right after the next so not many pictures around here lately