Where Do You Buy Backgrounds?
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Here's a quick little visual quiz for you: Which background is brown and which one is orange? Or - are these two backgrounds so close that you can't see a difference? Which one would YOU buy? Or how about this: Would anyone who isn't colour blind have any use for an orange background???? |
Yes, I've made another bad purchase from the Internet. This one is courtesy of BackdropOutlet.com.
I have collected a few muslins, but at 10 feet across the nicest ones just aren't wide enough for large families or groups. I found this one on backdropoutlet. com, and lucky me - they e-mailed about a weekend sale. I liked it so much that I ordered 2 - one to run wide and one for a floor cloth.
I thought that the browns were a nice neutral colour that would work nicely with most anything. And, I even expected that the browns might be slightly darker or lighter. No big deal, right? Well, I have to share with you, THIS MUSLIN IS UGLY, UGLY, UGLY and it is not even remotely brown and was totally misrepresented by BackdropOutlet.com.
...And if BackdropOutlet hadn't censored me, I would still be disappointed but I wouldn't be ranting...
You see, they have reviews on their website that customers would expect to be honest representations of their products. So, I wrote an honest review. Of course, the don't tell customers that they censor. They only let purchasers see 4 or 5 star reviews. In the case of this product, my review and no other reviews exist.
Why do they have reviews then? Oh, I get it, so they can misrepresent their products.
My review was 1 star. I said was it was 5 stars for quality but that the colour is nothing like the ad, it is not brown whatsoever, and that the pumpkin tones render it useless for portrait work.
Now I have 2 orange 10x20 backgrounds. Just another bad purchase made on the Internet. My last bad purchase at Backdrop Outlet.
It doesn't help that I still need two 10x20 backdrops. Does anyone have experience with muslins from Denny?
First of all, sucks that the drop doesn't match the photo. That's a white balance issue. You CAN use it - gel the flash that's hitting it. You can turn that orange almost any color you want.
As far as backgrounds, I get all of mine through either Amvona or 2DreamMaker both on Ebay. (DreamMaker is http://myworld.ebay.com/2dreammaker&ssPageName=STRK:MEFSX:SELLERID)
I've also used Backdrop Outlet but my results were good - I liked what they sent me. It was a HUGE background and very nice. Our favorite portrait one by far.
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Hey Matt, thanks for the details. I'm glad you got a good background - I'm the only one I've heard of who has written off BDO. Some problems with my first order as well. As far as adding gels, it is still ugly as sin, and it just wouln't be effective for say a group of 16 teenage ballerinas in pink tutus (the whole point of buying two was so I could run wide with a floor cloth).
Funny about the ones you mentioned, I have backgrounds from both Amvona and DreamMaker. Amvona's (Jedi, I think) is nice, again NOTHING like the photo but totally acceptable. The DreamMaker muslins are the cheapest muslins anywhere and they have been some of the best investments that I've made. I just checked out their ebay store and no new inventory, but wow, a 10x19 for $59.
Muslins have really come down in price in the past couple years, at least on ebay. I was also thinking about trying Tim West Backgrounds , his stuff is selling for about half of what it sold for a year ago or directly from Denny .
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