Yeah, yeah, I'm getting the message, loud and clear: lose the wrinkles! :-)
I'm a guy, so A is _not_ happening. I let the backdrop hang all the prior day and the wrinkles held. 'Course it was folded in its package for who knows how long before I opened it. I might try my travel steamer to see if it helps. I doubt it will though; never helped my clothing. :-( I tried B: I scrunched it back into its bag, wadded as tight as it would go, and left it overnight. You'd think it would get seriously wrinkly, but no dammit. C I tried to do, but lack of enough linear distance de-feet-ed me. Backdrop tech is more involved than I hoped for. I really don't want to carry around a roll of seamless, but it may come to that. Thanks for your comments, John. On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I find the background distracting. My eye keeps being drawn to that vertical > fold. > > It would help if the background were either (A) ironed; (B) wadded up > several times so that the wrinkles become completely randomized or (C) out > of focus. > > C seems to work best, but B will do in a pinch. > > > On 8/19/2013 8:59 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> A straight-forward "studio" portrait of my niece, Sophie. Shot on >> location in my sister's living room (she's a champ to put up with me >> rearranging the whole thing). >> >> http://flic.kr/p/fy42fh >> >> I was also testing my latest money-saving invention: $10 IKEA >> background support system. Ingredients: One Hugad black curtain rod, >> 210-385 cm; 2x Betydlig curtain rod brackets, top-slot filed out to >> fit 1/4" stud on top of light stand; use with two cheap 8' light >> stands. >> >> K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 90mm/f:5, 1/160th, ISO 100; >> Lr + Ps + Nik + Portraiture >> >> Paramount short lighting with reflector fill. AF540FGZ in Westcott >> Medium Apollo above-left, key; AF540FGZ in 30" umbrella softbox, >> boomed above behind-right, hair; 42" silver reflector, right. >> >> Comments welcome! >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
