Sunbittern wing feather from Woodland Park Zoo
This is an example from a new series of stock feather images on grey backgrounds. I have been working on this project for the past month and am up to 600 high resolutions photos. My goal is to compose these individual pictures into larger posters with many feathers. With feathers, solid, uniform black backgrounds are relatively easy to photograph and to perform post-production. A uniform grey background is more difficult to create. Consistent, even lighting is a key. Because the fine downy feathers pick up any background color, the background color cannot be changed without the previous color showing through. So, each camera image has to have the same uniform background color so they blend uniformly with a single grey when joined together with the other feather photographs.