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From Quick Guide: Photo Backdrops 101

Summary: Backdrops can be bought or homemade and come in different materials. Learn about backdrops in this free video on studio equipment for photography.

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By Scott Vallance
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Scott Vallance is the owner of VIP Photographic.com.

He graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography, and opened his first commercial photography studio in San Diego and...read more

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"Okay, in this clip we're going to talk about backgrounds. Backgrounds come in a lot of different paper colors, there's two different sizes. This is a four foot roll of paper; they also have nine foot rolls of paper which is what's in these big boxes you see back here. There's all kinds of different colors, there's white, black, and gray are the most common, but you can get them in rust color, there must be forty or fifty different colors of background papers. If you're just shooting small subjects, or head and shoulder shots, all you need is the smaller rolls. The big rolls take up a lot of room if you're photographing your house or trying to transport in a small car. There's all kind of different things you can use as a background, this is just a real lightweight, they call it a miracle fabric, it's just like a gauzy thing. You can actually show colors behind it so it becomes kind of a different type of feel to your background. A real common thing that's used is muslin, a lot of people make this themselves. You can go to a fabric store and buy muslin in, I believe its six foot lengths, and then seam it together and then dye it. If you want a real solid color you probably shouldn't do it yourself, you should probably purchase it, but if you want something that's kind of modeled, you can do that. This is a modeled background. This particular one is made of canvas, so you can see that. This is just painted right on here. These take a little bit of special care because if it gets creased it will crack the paint. But as long as you keep it nice and straight it will last you for years and years. These are really nice backgrounds; they've been used longer than anything."

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