Hopefully, it's clean and not too wrinkled. But if you're in a pinch and you happen to have an old Beastmode sign laying around, you can use the back side for a background. While thicker than your standard copy or butcher paper, posterboard still has all the same disadvantages, but none of the advantages other than being white and smooth. Posterboard is a thicker sheet of paper that you probably have used at some point in your life if you've ever made signs to cheer on your favorite sports team at a sporting event. But since they don't come super expensive to begin with, it's not a big deal.
Therefore, they require a lot of replacing.
Roll the end down onto your table surface and you've got a seamless background! This is great for product photography where you don't want to see the break in horizontal and vertical surfaces.īut you know what sucks about paper? They crease and tear easily. Smudge and dirt marks are hard to clean off. You can also buy large rolls of this stuff at your art supply store, which you can then hang from a drapery rod on a wall. Have some small trinkets you want to shoot? Grab a sheet of copy paper from your printer and boom! Instant backdrop. It's easily available and everyone is familiar with it. Paper gets a lot of respect in the prop world and rightly so.
