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Originally Posted by Electricseashell
Then I guess had I done it my way I could photoshop it and the grey could be used as shadow ? lol I had never tried it but I would have tried it..and gotten a grey background.. learning shutterbug.. would white balance of the poster board do the same thing?
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I'm still a newbie myself, so fogive me if this isn't entirely accurate.
It's not white balance, but exposure. A camera is designed to even out the light and dark in a scene. Normally this is fine, but if you point a camera at a pure white subject (eg a piece of paper), it will reduce the exposure so the image comes out grey. On a black subject it will lighten the exposure to again get gray. The same applies in a reduced way with a subject against a white or black background - the background will come out darker or lighter respectively.
This was an issue I always had when I tried to take pictures of model trains for a website of mine. I put the model on a sheet of white paper, the paper would come out gray and the model would be too dark.