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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3795224, member: 88829&quot;]I&#039;m in the crowd of those using black velvet for my background.&nbsp; It has been giving me results I like for several years now, and is super adaptable to whatever lighting config I desire to use:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014041[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have cut about a 4 inch square out of a square yard of new fabric I bought for the purpose (= never laundered) and this is placed on a special stand with a 2x2 inch platform that I can move in three directions for ultra fine adjustments down to about 1-2 microns or so including vertically for focus.&nbsp; It also let&#039;s me add a goniometer to the stack for vertical angular adjustment when I need exactly the right angle of incidence for the lighting or parallelism in the focal plane.&nbsp; The unused cloth is kept in the bag I brought it home in, kept in a closed drawer for fresh backup (haven&#039;t cut it again for over a year).&nbsp; I keep a toothbrush I bought for the purpose on the copystand to use to brush the surface prior to a shot if any specks of anything are visible in the viewfinder.&nbsp; There is a trick to brushing the velvet that I will not try to go into here, but when done correctly will yield a consistent flat black.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the camera I am using a Canon Rebel that is linked directly to a computer so all the composition and light balancing is done on the computer screen.&nbsp; It sounds fancy to say it that way, but it&#039;s really pretty meat-and-potatoes.&nbsp; For daylight I am using 5200-5600K LED bulbs in gooseneck lamps, and for &quot;tungsten&quot; I have a set of 3 3200K small bulb Jansjoe lights which I rarely use.</p><p><br /></p><p>With this setup I don&#039;t have to struggle with balancing coins and can get all the adjustments I need for a shot.&nbsp; The background is consistently black and uniform.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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