I have been trying several different types of seamless backgrounds to get that completely smooth effect that most of us are looking for when we use backgrounds. I have been using black and white roll paper but have found I can often see the very subtle texture of the black paper and it takes very little to end up with a minor wrinkle on the white paper that I then need to spend time fixing in Photoshop (I saw another post with someone said they had made their paper backgrounds last 20 years -- I'm lucky to get a couple of shoots out of a length of mine).
I recently purchased muslin backgrounds in both black and white (will use then for the first time today) as I thought it would be easier to store in my apartment/studio and I could wash them and make them last a lot longer. When I unpacked both backgrounds they were heavily creased from the folds used to pack them and a couple of hours of ironing haven't made that much difference.
How do I sort this out? Is there a "perfect" background that just doesn't get wrinkled and can be stored easily or is this more about the lighting on the background that makes any blemishes disappear? Given my space (and budget) constraints I have found my experiments with moving the model further away from the background (oh for a full sized studio) and applying more lighting to the white background in particular (I only have three lights in total so I'm a little restricted in how much light I can afford to apply to the background) but the results have been mixed.
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