Hey Diane,
I am going to wait until i get home and see this on my monitor. It is color calivrated and my ipad is not. I THINK it looks pretty good though.
FYI, I also do what you are doing. Living in Manhattan, it is pretty impractical for me to dedicate my living room into a studio and I have been able to get by just fine. As Penny says, backdrops are good and cheap. When we first started, a lot of stuff we purchased came from fabric stores.
Now we bring an entire portable studio into everyone's home. It kind of blows their minds when I come in.
James