There are lots of options for choosing backdrops for portraiture, starting with the material used. Muslin is a closely woven cloth produced from corded cotton yarn but what’s endeared it to photographers is that it’s light weight. A muslin backdrop can be stuffed into a bag and tossed in your car or truck.

In Barry Staver and my most recent Pixels, Grain and Cookies Podcast we struggled to explain how an image stabilized lens works together with an in-body stabilized camera to multiply the effect of making the image even more stabilized. Today I’m going to attempt to explain how it all works…