Ideas for a Christmas card

[jeffrey_douglas]

Hope this is not an inappropriate question for this forum.

 

I am going to be shooting a family (3 kids and 2 adults) portrait for a Christmas card. I will

probably be shooting it in their home and right now I'm thinking of just using a white

paper roll for the background and just having Christmas art on the card and just dropping

the photo in.

 

I don't have any Christmas themed background and I really don't want to try to Photoshop

them into a fake background.

 

If anyone has any suggestions or can point me to any examples I would greatly appreciate

it.

 

I will be shooting with a 20d, two AB 800s, softbox, umbrellas, etc. I am really just looking

for background and card examples.

 

Thanks

[mark_warren1]

i don't think you need a themed backdrop. christmas cards are usually a visual reference

of the family's change from the prior year, who cares what the background is.

 

shoot outside with a shallow dof or inside with any backdrop.

[fk319]

Jeffery, Walmart has fabric. I have bough a few yards and use them as backdrops. Some have work very well and others have worked very poorly. Perhaps there is a background that you could use.

 

Mark, We do the same thing for Easter. Easter floats about a month and Easter is the day we always dress up. We have been lucky that it has never rained, but we have very bright and a warm sun one year and snow and not so warm another year.

[amul]

If it was me, I'd would be re-arranging some part of their home to be an appropriate background, since I'm already there.