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Building the backdrop

Building the backdrop

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Building the backdrop

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- Okay, Kevin. It looks like it's built pretty straight forward stuff here. Why is there the gentle curve here? What's the idea of having this have a bend in the middle rather than a hard edge or just using a box? - What you find especially with depth and field is that it will fall off a lot nicer. It creates a little bit of distance as opposed to having a wall right here where it's just going to be one flat surface. - OK. - But it's a gradual fall off and the camera really can't see the difference between it. - It's looking good. We have a few scratches and scuffs on ours but it'll actually fall off. I mean, the idea here is keep this clean. Ours has gotten a little dirty through the years, but it's several years old. The thing that you have to be careful of is, again, this is pretty thick plastic. One side's shiny, you actually can use the shiny side if you want. I tend to use the more modeled side so it just falls off. But if you wanted that high gloss look with lot's of light…

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