Non-Reflective Background Material

[wmaburnett]

I am looking for a background material for my photographs a black material that absorbs light and does not reflect so it will not show up when doing like macro photography and all, does anyone have a suggestion of a good material?
Thanks!
~William

[phillipb]

Try Velvet.

[Dug]

hit your local spotlight store look for a good matt black material.

I have a range of them for different shoots, including a waterproof one for baby shoots. It helps with little accidents.

[phillipb]

hit your local spotlight store l

Spotlight in Minnesota?

[BBJ]

Maybe not the shops Dug suggested as i too went to spotlight and brought Muslin cloth and dyed my own to use as a background, but a art/craft shop of sorts would have this cloth and many more.

[wmaburnett]

HaHa Thanks everyone, i shall lookinto this at a crafts store here! For a second i thought you were referring to like a store that specializes in spotlights haha, but i am guessing it is a store sort of like our walgreens or walmart/target things,
Thanks!
~William

[gstark]

William,

MJD is what you want.

Velvet is very good, especially for larger areras.

Form smaller subjects, grab some foam core board. Get some that's white on one side, and black on the other, and you'll have something that doubles as a reflector.

[Dug]

Sorry Will did not see your location

Spotlight is the big fabric warehouse here downunder.

My wife is into sewing in a BIG way, so I spend a lot of time there looking at fabrics. It really upsets the staff when I but say 5 meters of silk and they say "What are you making with it?" and my reply is "Oh, Nothing I just like the way it looks"

They are not used to males buying fabric!

I have a bag of different fabrics usually 3 to 5 meters long used either as background or as body wraps, a body wrapped in expensive silk looks wonderful!

[wmaburnett]

HaHaHa! Nice its all good, wish i was down under...