Last summer, I visited my folks back on the East Coast, in New York City to be precise. My sister just had a baby, so I setup a quick “studio” in her then spare bedroom for a photo shoot of her, my brother-in-law and their boy.

The room walls were painted in light blue, which was also the color of the window drapes. This gave me a nice background to work with. I put together a couple of light stands with tungsten bulbs to contrast nicely with the cooler background, and set everything up by a window. The sunshine streaming through the blue curtain of the window provided a well-illuminated background, which thus didn’t require a separate illumination.