Fun fact/pro-tip: if you’re an on-location portrait photographer, or film on green screens, carry your backdrops in pillowcases. Don’t fold them, just crumple and shove. The organic wrinkles are far easier to work around and hide than trying to get rid of geometric patterns and their shadows.
You could also iron or steam the backdrop every time you use it, but that’s a fucking slog.
Rolling them up makes them cumbersome, and there’s not enough material to make a substantial roll, so you’d have to wrap it around a dowel of some sort. If you’re trying to save space, you’d have to fold it, then roll it, which would crease the fabric. Rolling it would likely introduce wrinkles, and the folded portions would definitely crease, so now you’d have geometric lines.
Unless you can hang the backdrop on-location for a while after smoothing it, or you have a portable steamer, crumpling really is the quickest, simplest, and most effective solution.
Fun fact/pro-tip: if you’re an on-location portrait photographer, or film on green screens, carry your backdrops in pillowcases. Don’t fold them, just crumple and shove. The organic wrinkles are far easier to work around and hide than trying to get rid of geometric patterns and their shadows.
You could also iron or steam the backdrop every time you use it, but that’s a fucking slog.
I guess that’s good advice, but why not just roll them up.
Rolling them up makes them cumbersome, and there’s not enough material to make a substantial roll, so you’d have to wrap it around a dowel of some sort. If you’re trying to save space, you’d have to fold it, then roll it, which would crease the fabric. Rolling it would likely introduce wrinkles, and the folded portions would definitely crease, so now you’d have geometric lines.
Unless you can hang the backdrop on-location for a while after smoothing it, or you have a portable steamer, crumpling really is the quickest, simplest, and most effective solution.