The Photographer's Resource
Photographers don't shop by material category - they shop by what they're trying to capture. We've organized our full range of photography-relevant materials by how you actually use them: backgrounds and sweeps, color and light control, reflective and metallic surfaces, in-frame props, and custom fabricated pieces that don't exist anywhere else.
Sweep backdrops, tabletop surfaces, and layered backgrounds - available in full sheets or cut to your exact dimensions.
14 muted, photographer-ready colors inspired by New York City's subway palette. Soft, low-saturation tones that read beautifully on camera without competing with your subject. The go-to backdrop for beauty, skincare, food, and lifestyle flat lays.
CPC's proprietary cast frosted acrylic. Less grain than standard frosted, with a cleaner, more even light diffusion. Ideal as a background sweep, light diffusion panel, or soft-focus tabletop surface. Less Grain. Cleaner Light.
Soft, non-glare surface that diffuses light beautifully. Eliminates harsh hotspots and creates a soft-studio look. A go-to sweep for cosmetics, jewelry, and product tabletop photography.
One side matte, one side glossy. Virtually eliminates reflections and glare on camera. Used as a shooting surface, background, or protective cover over artwork and prints. Clean, flat look under any lighting condition.
Layered color effects, colored-gel looks, and backlit setups. Adds depth without going fully opaque. Ideal for product shots where you want color to bleed through the surface.
Flat, non-reflective white that eliminates hotspots. High-key tabletop setups, product photography, and clean editorial looks. Handles studio strobes without any bounce-back.
Deep, absorbing black for dramatic contrast and low-key setups. Luxe product photography - spirits, fragrance, watches. Lighting stays exactly where you place it.
Transparent and fluorescent acrylic sheets used as color gels, light filters, and colored backgrounds in fashion, beauty, and creative photography. Hold a sheet in front of a strobe or window and you have instant colored light - no gel kit required.
Saturated, see-through color in red, blue, magenta, green, amber, and more. Place in front of a light source to cast colored shadows and gradients, use as a colored background, or layer for mixed-color effects. A staple in fashion and creative photography setups.
Neon-bright colors that glow under UV and react intensely under studio strobes. Yellow, orange, pink, green, and red. Used for high-energy editorial looks, neon-lit aesthetics, and UV photography. Cuts to size for backgrounds, panels, and in-frame props.
Mirror surfaces, metallic films, and specialty roll materials for reflection shots, dual-exposure looks, and that liquid-chrome aesthetic in luxury product photography.
Lightweight, scratch-resistant mirror sheet. Perfect for reflection shots, doubling your subject, and floor reflections. No weight or fragility of glass.
Flexible, rollable mirror film for large-format reflections and metallic backgrounds. Wrinkle for a fractured chrome effect or keep smooth for clean reflections.
Warm metallic gold tones for luxury, beauty, and spirits photography. Creates rich ambient bounce light and a sun-drenched editorial quality across the frame.
Iridescent, holographic, and surface films for color-shifting backgrounds and creative effects. Widely used in beauty, editorial, and product photography.
Solid-color vinyl rolls for seamless sweep backgrounds and tabletop surfaces. A long-time in-store staple - now coming online. Multiple colors, sold by the roll or cut to length.
Clear, sculptural, and optically pure acrylic forms that work inside the shot — as invisible risers, ice substitutes, water-effect surfaces, or as objects of interest in their own right. These are the pieces that elevate a flat lay from a product photo to an editorial image.
Optically clear and virtually invisible in-frame. Used as elevated platforms, ice and water surface substitutes, and transparent layering elements in product and food photography.
Solid, weighty, and optically clear. Stack for tiered height in a flat lay, use as pedestals for jewelry and small products, or arrange as geometric visual elements.
Precision-cut cubes in a range of sizes. A staple in luxury product photography - beauty, spirits, and fragrance. Ice-like in appearance, without the melting timeline.
Optically clear spheres in multiple sizes. Used as magnifying elements, light-refracting props, and decorative objects across product and still life photography.
Most photographers discover us the same way: looking for a specific material, finding we carry it, then realizing they can get everything - the backdrop, the mirror, the props, and the custom tank for their water shoot - from a single source, cut to size, in one order.
Canal Plastics Center - New York City, Since 1963
Canal Plastics fabricates custom acrylic pieces for photographers that simply don't exist anywhere else - from water-shoot tanks to laser-cut logos and UV-printed custom backdrops.
Custom-cut acrylic pieces to your exact specifications, fabricated in our NYC shop and shipped nationwide.
Your artwork printed directly onto acrylic sheet — vibrant, durable, and ready to shoot against.
Large-format acrylic boxes, tanks, and enclosures for contained and submerged object photography.
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