Quote Originally Posted by MelissaFlipski View Post
Is that a black marble table for background?
That's actually a piece of black expanded PVC. Sean uses PVC to build a lot of cages/racks. He gets them in 4'x8' sheets of either black or white. I had him cut down a couple of pieces for me to use as background for my photos and I really like the way they work! They are lightweight (easy to carry around with me at shows), easy to clean (when you have the ocassionaly nervous model that has an accident), and relatively inexpensive. I like to use black or white because everyone knows what black or white <i>should</i> look like so it gives you a good standard to view the animal by.

I've tried several different kinds of backgrounds in the past including black/white velvet (too hard to clean), black/white melamine (works well but the material is heavy), marble (a lot of reflections and really heavy), acrylic (too much reflections), etc. and so far, I like the expanded PVC best still!