Superior Grape 107″x36′ Seamless Roll (76)

The Superior Grape 107"x36' seamless paper roll is premium heavyweight backdrop paper, made in the USA and wound on a sturdy core for clean, even pulls. Its matte, non-reflective surface kills hotspots and glare, giving photographers and DPs a smooth, continuous field of color from wall to floor.

Grape is a rich, saturated purple with more brightness than Deep Purple and more blue than Plum. It is a natural for beauty and cosmetics campaigns, creative portraiture, kids and dance photography, and product work for brands with purple identities. As a statement background it communicates imagination and a little luxury at once, and it crops into striking social tiles.

Daylight LEDs render Grape vivid and true; under tungsten it shifts toward a warmer wine tone, so lock your white balance to keep a consistent set. Yellow and gold wardrobe create maximum complementary drama, while white, silver, and lavender keep things elegant and tonal. It flatters deep skin tones especially well. Like all saturated papers it can throw a subtle cast onto nearby white garments, so build in a few feet of separation. Scuffs blend into the saturation, keeping the roll presentable through long shoot days.

The 107-inch by 36-foot roll is the full-width studio standard, giving you nearly nine feet of paper: enough for full-length fashion and portrait work, seated groups of two or three, dancers in motion, and larger product setups with room to sweep the paper forward across the floor. It is the width most rental studios keep on the wall for good reason, covering the vast majority of people-photography jobs. Smaller headshot and tabletop work can step down to the 53-inch roll, but if subjects will ever stand up, this is the width to own.

When the sweep gets scuffed mid-shoot, you do not clean it, you cut it: trim away the used section and unroll a fresh, perfect surface in under a minute. It mounts on any standard backdrop stand or wall-mounted roller system, making color changes and refreshes fast even for a single shooter.

• Color: Grape (Superior #76)

• Size: 107"x36' seamless roll

• Surface: matte, non-reflective heavyweight paper

• Origin: made in the USA, core-wound

Available now for purchase at all three Lightbulb Rentals locations — NYC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh — and easily added to any rental order so it shows up with the rest of your gear.