Light Tent background question

sorry my mistake

some of my new pictures like these, are made on a still life table which consist in a white translucent plexiglass, with a light source behind or below you create the reflection

but anyway i still shoting with black or white paper and the plexiglass

i apologize for the inconvenient

i guess this was made with black paper and plexiglass, but honestly i shoot more the 100 pic a day and i dont remember

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OK, translucent plexiglas will not make a duplicate image, only clear or smoke. If you look close at your last image with the black paper, you can see a double reflection in the two little grill lines, the buttons and the text in the reflected part at the bottom. That is from using clear plexiglass that gives one refection from the top layer and one from the inside of the bottom layer.

mauro stucchi wrote in post #9733325
honestly i don't know if latex will be fine

It works perfectly for me. I have not had to paint it for about 8 months. It wears like iron! If the job requires a reflection, I have sheets of polyester that is about as thick as cheap buisness cards. The only thing you cant do with it, is under lighting, for obvious reasons..

Thanks for all the light tent info and I love looking at everyone's photos. I built me a light tent out of a box, bristol paper and white muslin. However, my photos don't look white enough. Should I take them with the light off in the room and the flash off, or what. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. They kind of have a tan to grey look, not white. Of course I could fix them to look whiter with my image editor but didn't know if they would be allowed for submitted to stock places. Any advise would be appreciated. I am using a 12 megapixel camera

I use Daylight rated 5000K bulbs and yes, turn off all other lights in the room, curtains pulled, even the TV. Everything off but the lights on the tent.

Is the muslin white? My tent material is brilliant white. It might make a difference.