gwprovost
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Barrie Davis
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I would never fasten a backdrop to the back wall. It makes it
impossible to stand mount a light to shine over the top, for back
lighting or clip lighting.
The fixtures are high up against a 10' ceiling at the end of a
fairly long room. There's plenty of space and it's a simple matter
to use kickers/rim/side/back lighting, etc., with lights from a
boom and/or stands.
To mount a boom you need space at the side(s), where there is usually even less space than front to back. YMMV.
Neither is boom handling simple, quick, or particularly cheap. But hey, we all come to our own conclusions.... including the people who sell the equipment...
Those companies that sell ceiling or wall mounts for backgrounds are the same ones as would rather sell you a stand AND boom, instead of just a stand, I'm guessing!
Also, those (same?) companies that sell background paper must be quite keen for all your shots to require paper long enough to reach the floor, for a simple floor spread, it is obliged to START at the ceiling, for instance.
My own arrangement is a pole on ropes through pulleys mounted in
the ceiling. The system is automatically self counterbalancing,
doesn't take up any floor space, the rolls of paper can be at any
height (product shots on the floor, say) and (biggest bonus of all)
rolls can be rapidly interchanged at waist height WITHOUT anyone
having to climb a stepladder.
Sounds interesting, I'd enjoy seeing a picture of your setup.
I can't post pix into web space, but I can send pictures of the setup, and instructions on how it is made self supporting. BTW it doesn't LOOK great, very low tech.... but it certainly works fantastically well, and has been copied by other pro photographers.
[I ounce had a professionally installed rack of three 9ft x 36 yard background papers fall off the wall as I was crouching beneath it. It brushed my arm as it went down. If it had hit my head it would have killed me. I now install my own background support systems, and have found this way of making the support system itself lighter in weight. Paper remains heavy of course, if NOT so heavy as it used to be.]
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