Studio backgrounds, how to keep them wrinkle free??

So I had a shoot a week ago, took out my background and it was all wrinkled... Now I'm sitting and thying to get all the wrinkles out in PS... Any advise on how to keep my bg's nice and wrinckle free??

I could roll it up, but than I'd have to carry a 16ft pole with me in the car??

Thanks!

I'm curious about this too. I have a steamer, but it's a PITA steaming the whole thing.
They should make them wrinkle-free, like a cotton/poly blend, like dress shirts, or slacks.

This question has been asked many times on this forum.

Here are three threads dealing with this exact issue:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=282459

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=210552

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=195162

Enjoy! Lon

On top of all the info from Lon....

Keep the subject at least six feet from the wrinkly background and use an aperture which will blur the background a little. Do not light the background from the side but instead use a light directly behind the subject (to avoid hi-lighting the wrinkles with light). All of this makes the wrinkles completely disappear in your images.

One last thing, when you are using high contrast lighting (i.e. small light source relative to your subject), this WILL highlight wrinkles in your background, so a combination of blurring and softer light will help. The reason the direct light from behind the subject works, like SkipD mentioned, is because with a light so close and big, you get a more even and larger spread of light.

On a last note, I know we are all trying to get it right in-camera; however, if you are trying to get a light spot on the background to set off your subject from the background, but are getting too much light spread from a soft light source, you can always darken/vignette in PS. No it isn't the same, but at least you can get close. Sometimes we are working in spaces and don't have enough flags and reflectors to keep the light where we want it and need to use the digital darkroom to wrap things up in combination with our studio in-camera abilities. Larger areas provide more forgiveness in terms of apertures and subject/camera/backgro​und distance flexibility.

In addition to a more open aperture, if you can move your subject further from the background, or use a longer focal length, that will blur the background more.

The only problem with blurring is when you have a patterned background that is important to your entire objective for the shot.

One thing I ensured for the last living room studio shot of our daughter was to put weights at the bottom of the background (we didn't need the background to extend under her posing area) to keep it taut.

Just some thoughts.

I use good quality hand painted muslin. I have rolled it up like a carpet. I even have it folded in half to carry in my car. No problems with wrinkles. Most say bag it up, which I think creates all those wrinkles. The cheaper stuff is too light/think IMHO.

i guess if you roll it up and than fold it, you have few wrinkles to work around.. i had mine folded and wrinkles are everywhere. I shot with a light color background, and had it blown out a bit, so the wrinkles were not visible. This time i had blue-ish painted canvas and it sucked.. I'll post a pic later on today.