Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Emilmedia on October 08, 2013, 02:52:38 am
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Hi everyone. I'm looking for theese really nice textured filt studio backgrounds i see everywhere used by some of the high end photographers. In sweden i can only find the regular lasolite paper backgrounds or single colored backgrounds.
http://statigr.am/p/559939614903776608_193475140
http://www.davidbicho.com/blog/2013/10/uppdrag-gruppbild/
Have any ideas?
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I used to purchase that kind of backgrounds here
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Background-Material-/79003/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ssn=romaphoto&_pgn=2&_skc=50&rt=nc
They ship worldwide.
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They look like old beat up pieces of shipping canvas, what they would wrap cargo pallets with. If you look closely, you can see seems from where they stitched the sheets of canvas together. This is common for large pieces of canvas since no one makes an uniformly super wide and super long piece of canvas. You could try a shipping yard.
For my purposes, which means blocking out light, I bought a 12x18 foot piece of white painters canvas from Home Depot and soaked it in black clothing dye for an hour. The canvas is a dark charcoal, not really black. I never use it as a background, only to black light from spilling into a shot, but my girlfriend who is a food photographer loves it for certain thing. I could see me adding some motor oil stains (or whatever) to it and making it look like what you have posted.
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WOW ebay for cheeseeee amateur backgrounds.
I used to purchase that kind of backgrounds here
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Background-Material-/79003/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ssn=romaphoto&_pgn=2&_skc=50&rt=nc
They ship worldwide.
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There are few interesting backgrounds if you look carefully. Just because it's on Ebay it doesn't mean it's a crap. I was just trying to help, what's your problem?