

The advantages of using seamless paper are numerous, but much of it stems from how simple it is to utilize no matter what you’re trying to do. Used by photographers and video shooters for decades, seamless paper comes in various size and length rolls and offers a quick and easy way to achieve a limbo look.

This means that whatever you have in the background of your shot will be plainly in your audience’s view. This means in most cases, forget about obtaining that nice, shallow depth of field look where the background behind you will fall off to a softly focused blur. Another factor to think about besides the wide-angle field of view is that these tiny sensors typically have very deep depth of field, a side of effect of tiny sensor size. These built-in cameras have tiny sensors so their lens is typically wide angle so that they can fit a person into their FOV when handheld, in the case of a smartphone camera, or in a small office in the case of a laptop or desktop computer. Most people use the camera built-in to their phone or computer. Most built cameras built into phones and computers utilize tiny sensors and a less than flattering wide-angle field of view. The most difficult part of the shot to effectively design, art direct and light is almost always the background. A good-looking interview or talking head largely revolves around designing the overall look of the shot, not just deciding how to position and light the talent. The Quarantine of 2020 has been instrumental in most of us finding ourselves spending a lot more time on camera than many of us ever have before.

Having the right background can improve how your live stream shot looks and how you are perceived on camera by your audience.
