# Simple Backdrops for Compositing with Brooke Shaden

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## Overview

Learn how to source, put together and polish backgrounds for your images by utilizing everyday objects, set design, and compositing. Award-winning and fine art photographer Brooke Shaden, shares her secrets to creating the magic behind her subjects. Not having a big budget or a great location should never stop someone from creating images that look expensive and refined.

You'll Learn:

1. How to create and use bedsheets as backdrops so that your images have a painterly background.
2. How to effectively and inexpensively use color theory and prop placement to create a set in your own home.
3. How to shoot backgrounds for subjects you will composite in later, and top tricks for being able to create smooth composites.

## Instructors

### Brooke Shaden

Brooke explores the darkness and light in people, and her work looks at that juxtaposition. As a self-portrait artist, she photographs herself and becomes the characters of dreams inspired by a childhood of intense imagination and fear.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $29