#SEAMLESS PAPER STAND HOW TO#

Need a gigantic light source? A giant, portable window? A humongous, on-axis soft box you can actually stand in front of?īuy a cheap, queen-sized white sheet at WalMart and snip the ends of the wide, dressy hem. You can even prop them out with a small table, lamp, etc., and you have a pretty simple and graphic setting for a portrait. Careful, it might be NSFW-ish for some (no real nudity, just attitude) and the music and video auto-starts.

Brian Smith did that in his burlesque shoot for X-Rite Photo. It is handy to have a few photo-friendly sets of drapes around to use as a backdrop. And you can find cheap close-outs on the web or in local fabric stores. Many draperies have that same built-in loop. Because of this, they are easy to bunch up to get the texture and wrinkles that you want.īut don't stop at made-for-photography muslin backdrops. And most of those have a built-in hem loop on one end, meaning they will slide right over the bar for continuous support across the width. Ninety five percent of the time, I use the cheaper, half-width stuff.īeyond paper, the support bar can hold up just about anything that does not weigh a ton - like a cheap, muslin backdrop. I keep a full-width roll of white and black on hand, but I think the last time I used it was back in January for the theater shoots.

(Or, the occasional cat who looks like she swallowed an SU-4'd SB-800.) Most background stands will support full-width rolls of paper, but I usually grab the half-width rolls shown above - cheaper, easier to transport and just fine for single-person portraits. Seen above is the most common way for a background stand to be used - as a support for seamless paper.

#SEAMLESS PAPER STAND HOW TO#

Especially when you consider how little they cost.įour more ideas on how to use your background supports, inside. Normally used for seamless paper, background stand systems can pretty useful items for other stuff, too.

Seamless paper stand