Lightbox 2

Built a small and delightfully portable (and store-able) lightbox today:

 

Sterlite translucent storage box

3 brooder light covers, with 60 watt incandescent bulbs

Adhesive utensil hooks

Dowel rod

1 yard each of white bleached muslin and black broadcloth

Yardstick

 

I hung the utensil hooks on the "ceiling" of the light box, and ran the dowel through the hooks. I drape the fabric over the dowel. The lights clamped on either side of the yardstick provide enough counterbalance to hold it up, and I rest the other one on the top of the yard stick. Because the bulbs are only 60 watt (though I picked up some 75s, too) and incandescent rather than halogen, I don't worry that I'm going to start a fire mid-session.

 

Props to Stephen for the design.

Done