Fast and Easy Photo Backgrounds!

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As I've said before, I like to KEEP THINGS SIMPLE whether it be the look of my pictures or the set-up of my pictures, I'm all about simplicity. For me, one of the fastest and easiest ways to get a good clean simple background is to use paper! That's right...scrapbooking paper, wrapping paper, construction paper...whatever paper I can find. 

Wanna see some examples?

Here is a set-up using some wrapping paper:

And a shot from it:

This one was actually my daughter, Maddie's, idea. I was taking pictures of the cupcakes just using the white foam board as a backdrop and she came over and propped up that sheet of scrapbook paper behind it. I would normally never choose this particular piece on paper but it actually turned out pretty cool!

Shot from this set-up:

And here is the set-up for the rest of the pictures. I merely changed out the scrapbook paper which took me a whopping total of 5 seconds each time. 

And here are the shots from it:

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