wat king of backrounds r the nicest?

[Hexis]

Tripod, tripod, tripod. There is nothing that will help sharpen up images more than getting away from a hand-held camera. The best bet is to use a cable release/remote or self timer to minimize vibration as much as possible.

[tribalman]

Tripod, tripod, tripod. There is nothing that will help sharpen up images more than getting away from a hand-held camera. The best bet is to use a cable release/remote or self timer to minimize vibration as much as possible.

i haven't seen any recent decently priced cameras (digital, SLR, or digatal SLR) that still use the old cable shutter releases. as someone else noted, use outdoor lighting, it's a lot less yellow, unless you have those GE blue bulbs. and most of the angle is preference. to me, i think the picture is more interesting and draws more attention to the subject when there are other things in the frame. wether it's the walkway in the one picture, or the grass in another, it kinda adds more contrast than you will get with just a plain black backdrop. although that can look cool with some lighting effects.

[Hexis]

The last DSLR I remember with a normal cable release was the Nikon D100. Canon is all IR remote based (some ways good, some ways bad). The self timer trick works for still things (like paintball guns) where you have all the time you need to let the timer go.

The color of the light is easy to deal with with a whitebalance setting. Just don't try mixing different types of light. Stick with one and you can balance for it, add a strobe flash to incandescent and you will see just how yellow incandescent is (or how blue strobes are).

The nice thing about a tripod is you don't need a huge amount of light to take a good image. Just take a longer exposure.

[Muzikman]

The Canon SLR's are not IR. They are also not the old style mechanial releases, they are a wired electronic release.

[Hexis]

Ahh, a wired remote, that's right. My mistake.