Photography
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I bought two different rolls of fabric recently to try out as backdrops, and they work quite well. The biggest problem though is that they're only a metre wide. It's great for a close up of an individual, but you're not getting anyone else in there.
I'm a bit useless with lighting, so I can't really say anything about that, other than, bounce flash from the ceiling doesn't light up legs very well ๐๐
Cool! What sort of fabric and where did you get it from? I like the idea of fabric being more durable than paper.
Haha, I'm sure you'll get there with practice :)
I'm not sure exactly what it is, I just bought a few metres of green fabric from a local shop. It's not particularly thick, about as thick as a decent t-shirt, but only cost about ยฃ15, including getting the ends sewn so that they didn't fray. It was one of those cheap enough to try ideas.
I haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet, but the idea is to try different techniques and lighting, and teach myself a bit more. I want to learn how to edit green screen images too, and do things like put my kid in space :)
Apologies for the youtube link, but I've seen a few of this guy's shorts recently, and he seems to know his stuff, and doesn't do the whole youtuber shouting at the camera bullshit :)
https://youtube.com/shorts/RvxIYYBNdr4