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Some test photos using the new light box.
It's supposed to be color corrected to 5000K, whatever that means. Not sure my camera plays nice with it, but that's for other people to fix, not me.
I've made some modifications to my lightbox setup, creating an outer frame to hold and support clip-on lights. It now uses three 12" reflectors on top and two 12" reflectors on each side, all with 2000 lumen 5000K color balanced compact flourescent bulbs.
I also use a larger 5000K bulb behind a filter for front lighting, but it didn't fit in the picture.
The background is a solid piece of PlasTex wall laminate cut to size.
Got some of this door sealing tape, which is a thin strip of PU cell foam with an adhesive backing. Does quite a good job diffusing the LED strip.
DIY cardboard lightbox: white broadcloth diffusion material; 2 craft foam sheets connected under plexiglass for background; Nikon SB-24 set on manual at 1/16 power; Cactus V2 trigger for wireless flash. Standing on foot supplied with SB-800 flash.
NOTE: putting the Cactus V2 hotshoe foot (in the image, it's under the SB-24 flash) in the stand supplied with the SB-800 (and also available separately) is NOT a good idea. The connection is poor and the Cactus foot all too easily slides out.
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work in progress on the lightbox by CBLOXX
'York Minster Nights' saw leading street artists from Leeds based 'Black Rose' collective painting on panels & light boxes in the specially cleared Nave over four nights. The artists were given several behind the scenes Minster tours in the run up to the event and each piece was inspired by their individual observations.
A truly superb event all round.
By kind permission of the Chapter of York
I just tested my new home-made lightbox for product photography.
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Inexpensive lightbox made from IKEA washing basket "Jäll" and electrical cable. Two holes drilled in legs for pulling through the wire. Made with tip from Flickr user Zepofan
A homemade lightbox inspired by this Strobist post.
Cardboard box: salvaged from the recycling bin.
Tissue paper: taken from Prairie's present wrapping supplies (with her permission).
Tape: been rattling around in my desk drawers.
White posterboard: $0.50 from Rite Aid.
Total cost: $0.50.
Not bad!
Following on from Saturday's tulip shot (and still stealing ideas from nz_snapper's lighting blog - nzsnapper.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/before-and-after/), I've had a go at a highkey flower shot. This is was taken inside my little light tent (a Christmas pressie), balanced on a clear plastic tub with a secondary flash underneath and the primary flash above.
It's been tweaked a little in Elements to make the background 'whiter than white'. :)
I got a couple of requests to post a picture of the lightbox and details on how Todd made it. Thing is, Todd is the kind of guy who sees something he wants and figures out how to make it, using instructions only as a guideline. Sometimes he doesn't even use the instructions (for instance, last summer he saw an outdoor plant stand in a magazine. He figured he could build a better one for less money. One hour later, he did it.)
Keep in mind Todd had no idea what a lightbox was for. He saw one in one of those inflight magazines on our way to California and figured it was something I could use. Yesterday, he was in one of his "let's create something" moods so he decided to look up how to build your own lightbox (because I told him it was ridiculous to spend the kind of money they wanted for the one in the magazine).
These are the instructions he used as his guideline. For the most part, we winged it. We went to A.C. Moore craft store in the morning, looking for some of the supplies needed. They had no Bristol board, so we used poster board (cheaper). They had no fabric, so we substituted with white t-shirts (on sale for $3 each - we used three). We had intended on buying one of those pre-made boxes at a UPS store, but instead drove around the back of a row of stores and grabbed a good (non food-used) box out of the garbage (free!). We got the reflector lights at Home Depot, as well as the bulbs (it said to use n-vision 90 watt, but they didn't have that number, so we got one 75 watt soft and one 75 watt bright - you can always change these out - and the bulbs were the most expensive thing we had to buy).
Then he sort of went on his own from there. He rigged one of the lights using an old tripod we had in the and he put the other on the tripod from a telescope that was laying around in the garage (I forgot we even had that!). I experimented a lot with moving the lights around and taking them off and on the tripods. There are really a lot of different ways you can set this up, depending on how you want your shot to look - you can also change the color of the paper/bristol board you have inside - I haven't done that yet but I will probably experiment with that tonight. I'm also going to buy a few different watt bulbs and play around with the lighting.
There are a LOT of sites out there that will teach you how to get the most out of your lightbox, but I think the most important thing is adjusting your white balance on your camera settings so the pictures don't get a yellowish tone.
Also, think about the shape of your box before you make it. Mine is a shallow height, because I will use it mostly to take macros of small stuff like action figures. You might want to make yours taller, if you plan on taking photos of larger things. I might get Todd to make another box for me that's bigger.
Hope this helped (I'm trying to rush this out before I leave for work, so sorry if it's all over the place and not helpful at all), if you want more details email me, but definitely check out that link. The instructions are pretty cut and dry.
for those that have asked about this.
Corona box with baking paper taped across front. i found the waxy surface diffuses light very evenly. the inside of the box is lined wit aluminum foil. i just cut a hole the size of the sb800 nose out of the base and used another bit of cardboard to reinforce the area.
It took me about 15 minutes to build this lightbox from scratch. It cost about $80 with the bulbs, shop lights, foam core board and white gaffer's tape (which took me all day to locate at $28 a roll). But this experiment worked well. I hope to use it to shoot products for any websites we design.
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more lightbox. Ill reshoot some of these in natural light. there are 3 things i have noted.
1. lightboxes are useless unless you buy an expensive one, the light is uneven and bad
2. i need a macro lens
3. Backdrops are the key, im better working outside in the open at this
thoughts welcome
Just trying out my lightbox with some of my gear - 40D+grip, 85L
Info: sb-28 left and right 1/16 power, shot through white paper, several sheets used for background.
A new exhibition opened today at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking with sculptures and art inspired by those sculptures. I enjoyed the exhibition and also enjoyed the patterns created by the shadows and the Perspex display boxes. This is a Barbara Hepworth piece. One of the artists who had been invited to produce works turned up to see the gallery and it was interesting to talk to her about her drawings inspired by this Hepworth sculpture.
more lightbox. Ill reshoot some of these in natural light. there are 3 things i have noted.
1. lightboxes are useless unless you buy an expensive one, the light is uneven and bad
2. i need a macro lens
3. Backdrops are the key, im better working outside in the open at this
thoughts welcome
Some test photos using the new light box.
It's supposed to be color corrected to 5000K, whatever that means. Not sure my camera plays nice with it, but that's for other people to fix, not me.