Wrinkly backdrop

I just thought I'd share my experience. I have a big black backdrop that is so easy to wrinkle that you barely even look at it and the wrinkles appear out of nowhere! Anyway, I washed it and was dreading the 3 hrs of ironing that comes with washing it. So my friend called me up last minus asking if I could take a few shots of her boy. So I whipped up something and I had no time to dry my backdrop so I hung it up, wet, on the stand ready to shoot and realized that i could rub the wrinkles right out and it did a way better job than 3 hrs of ironing!!! So, no more ironing for me!!!!
You guys probably already knew about that but I never thought about it and felt like an idiot after I figured it out.

 

So where is the pic to prove it?

 

what he said i gotta try that with mine! i gotta wash it it got fussys obn it GRR im hoping to pick up a big piece of vinyl or something the wrinkles in teh muslin annoy the hell outta me

 

mmmm give me a minute, I'll go take a shot at it!

 

There's only one thing about not putting it in the dryer... you don't get rid of pet hair and fuzzies but I think it beats ironing it!

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good job man i thought the little room i got my stuff geared up in was crammed lol isnt it fun trying to cram into get shots lol lets see one of the shots you took!!

 

haha I agree! I hate clutter but it's the only spot I have right now. It's my son's playroom. I still have to work on those shots I took though.

 

I have a hand held steamer than takes the wrinkles right out of er.

 

i was wondering if they'd work so there good?

 

i hear ya hun

 

Works like a charm on mine.

 

I just whipped these up real quick while my 2 yr old was climbing on me... not easy! Any comments on color temp while I'm at it?

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oh by the way, I also was working on a "watermark" whadda ya think?

 

I thought of that too but I'm on a strick budget and already broke! lol

 

i like teh first ne.. second not so much is it a military helmet? maybe if he was wearing a solid color i just find its awkward and you cant really tell what the camo is!!

 

No comment on temp, but the thing that jumps out at me is your sloppy burning

You need to really zoom and use a small brush and a light hand when working that close to the head.....

 

A~Photography> yes it's a helmet. I think we should have worn an olive green t-shirt on the baby like daddy wears.

Tanya> sloppy burning... teehee you mean on the left side, along his head?

 

I mean all around his head.

 

I used the clone thingy to do that though. What's the difference with that and burning?

 

But I only touched a bit on the left side. He had messy hair...

 

I've hung a backdrop and ironed it there.

 

no. you need to get your background black in camera if that's what you're going for so it doesn't look weird trying to do it in post.

 

I am lost here guys. What are we critiquing? I didn't touch the background at all...? Here's the picture straight out of the camera.

 

It looks like part of his hair/head is lost in the black of the background and when you cloned it back in, it just doesn't look natural.

If you had either lit the background or had a hair light you can separate the subject from the background and add a lot of depth to the image.

Personally, I don't clone in hair. I do clone out hair. When adding hair, the technique that works for me is using the lasso tool to select a piece of similar hair from somewhere else and copying/pasting is in where I want and removing/blending with a large and soft eraser tool and then merging the layers. If you look in the SOOC thread here and look at where I took out the models left hand, you can't tell in the final image that hair was added in and that the hand was ever there.

The trick with Photoshop that a lot of people don't get it that you shouldn't be able to tell it was Photoshopped...

Hope this helps!