> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David > Chang-Sang > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: EOS OT: Seamless or Muslin? > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm curious, for those who use backgrounds, which do they prefer and why; > seamless paper or muslin? > > I've been considering purchasing a background for myself for portrait and > full body work but now I have a suspicion that seamless paper may be more > convenient and, in the long run, more versatile. > > Any and all comments and input welcome and appreciated. > > Cheers, > Dave > > >
Hi Dave, I like paper. It's light (portable), cheap, easy to buy in a variety of colors, it can be easily modified with spray paint or your favorite spackle spray. When it gets dirty you can recycle it by adding other old paper or cellophane or crepe paper or whatever to get something new. Or you could simply roll out some more and cut it off. Muslin I don't like so much, too bumpy, can't be used with fans, always looks wrinkled (to me anyway), harder to light well though they can give you more lighting options with translucent materials. I don't know, I never really liked it so much but it is cheap like paper. Ah, good hand painted canvas backgrounds are expensive, heavy (less portable), more or less fixed in color and texture at the time they are painted and they eventually crack, wear and get soiled though this should take a long time unless you travel with them or they are handled a lot. The up side of a good hand painted canvas is that it LOOKS fantastic, are very easy to get classic looks from with simple 3 light set ups (okay maybe 4 with a hair light), and the look is very hard to replace in terms of what you can get on film. You can also buy heavy canvas and paint them yourself. This works pretty well if you have even minor skill at painting, the key thing is to get the central shape and size of the highlight area of the background right if you like this style. Of course I have seen inexpensive painted canvas backgrounds at the camera shows starting at $50 which seems really cheap to me but they look okay. Cheers/Chip * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
