Fabric Photography Sweep

Want to take pictures that look clean and professional.  Use this easy photo backdrop to enhance the quality of your photos.

We have a paper photo sweep in the office, but since I make a lot of my projects at home I wanted a space where I could take nice pictures.  This photography sweep is easy to set up and very affordable.  Unlike our photo sweep in the office (frenzy made a great instructable on it - see here), mine uses fabric instead of paper.  I figured this would be more affordable because when the sweep gets dirty I can just throw it in the wash.

Step 1 Materials

Fabric - 2 yards, I used cotton duct fabric, the best fabric to use are ones that don't wrinkle that much and are mat so there wont be too much reflection from a flash.  I bought black and white fabric so I can switch them out.  Buy any fabric that you want - solids and patters!
2 Cup Hooks
Dowel Rod - 4 feet
Drill

Comments

[spuma1]

This is a great idea. Could you please tell me where I should look for "cotton duct" fabric? Does it go by any other names?

Thanks!

[Adam Manick]

Keep up the good work.

[scoochmaroo]

My paper sweeps are always getting messy. This is a great idea. I would probably need to make them twice as long, as I often get them messy in the middle of shooting something and need to unroll more paper!