Michael, having spent years in TV and photography, gray is the preferred color for most applications in that it provides a very restful background with no distractions-I prefer a lighter gray but you may have to experiment with your lighting system. Gray cards are traditionally used for setting exposures and color balance. Regards, Dr. Dozier sends
John, Thanks for the info, the majority of my published photographs for the last ten years have been B&W. Then my backdrop was the same gray as a gray card and worked fine. I now need to learn color for pictures I’m taking for book projects, mine and others. I’m getting board looking at the white background although that seems the best. I’m not allowed to make any color decisions at home ;-) so maybe I should follow the same rule for pictures.
