Making a Portable Seamless Backdrop

Years ago I worked in an advertising agency that made flyers for newspapers, they wanted photographs without distractions in the background for the four-colour printing process. Photographs without a seam between what you are photographing is siting on, and the wall behind it as in this photograph.

This is called a seamless backdrop, where the wall behind what you are photographing blends in with what you are photographing is siting on. Seamless backdrops are easy to make and I will show you how to make one out of simple materials.

Tools
Sharp Knife
Scissors

Materials
Cardboard box
Flexible card sheet
2-inch Gorilla tape

Start with a cardboard box.

Cut the box along opposing corners.

Choose flexible card sheet the colour you want for a backdrop.

Make sure the card sheet is no more than 7/8th the length of the cardboard.

Tape one end of the card sheet backing to the cardboard with 2-inch Gorilla tape and fold tape over as in this photo.
 

Then tape the other end of the card sheet as in this photo.

When the seamless backdrop is propped up the back is flat, the bottom is flat, and the corner is rounded.

Now you are ready to start making seamless photographs. Take your pictures.

And crop the photos so they contain only what you want in the photograph. In this photograph I wanted to demonstrate the article was palm size, seamless photographs can loose size perspective.