How can a render with less darkness?

[Devilinity]

You know when people render a object and they have this clean white background environment with the objects shadow casted a on a surface and the surface shows the objects reflection ... just so that it doesn't look like its floating in thin air ...

 

How do i get that sense of whiteness? Cos the only white bit i get is the falloff from the spotlight i use and anything outside the spotlight is darkness ...

 

p.s the images is just an example of what i meant, they are not mine

[Cad64]

Try changing the "Falloff Angle" in the Spotlight Properties. The higher the number, the softer the transition from light to dark.

[papagyi]

You can do plane surface with reflected material(eg.white plastic or reduce shining value from this) under your models.Then you can add background color as you like.