For a long time I kept the photography of the figures and models I paint pretty simple with plain white backgrounds, just out of easy more than anything. But as time went on I wanted the photgraphs to look a little more - dare I say - professional. So I started using an open source graphics package called GIMP. With this software, I was able to remove the backgrounds to the models and add in an equally plain, but more regular one. Sometime a light grey, then a faint old paper effect. I still do this with the photographs I take for my reference portfolio. But when posting them on the shop or Instagram, they looked a little anemic. Looking at other people who added scenery and various bases to show off their figures in their photos intimidated me a little but I finally took some tenative steps with some very basic set-dressing to my model photography. And while this isn't a complete run-down of my photography set-up, it will hopefully show that you don't need go crazy with scener...