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Another thing to consider is lighting; one could get away with doing the walls/backdrop in a single shade of blue, then vary the light intensity to get a perceptual variation. By placing tube flourescent fixtures just below the "horizon", you can make your sky glow enough to appear white in photos even though the paint color is blue, while up above where there is less direct light it will appear its natural blue color. I am using this approach myself, although I have my lights mounted at the top, and my backdrop curves forward at the top so that the light fixture is very close to the backdrop at the top. This cross-section ends up bouncing the flourescent light down, as a blue reflection of the painted sky, which give a very convincing noontime fill lighting effect, and as I mentioned before, causes the backdrop color to appear varied from top to bottom. <br /> <br />Usually the darker blue is at the top of the sky, with white or pale blue near the horizon, but this is not always true. In my case, I want it to feel as if the sun is right overhead, so my sky is brighter there (It actually feels as though the sun is just over your shoulder- next sunny day, go out and stand with the sun just behind you, and look at how the sky looks). If you mix-and-match, you might even be able to simulate different sun positions well enough to suggest compass locations around your layout, so that you can tell that this backdrop is looking north, while that one represents the view to the west, etc.
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