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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.
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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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¿Se dice 'caja de luz' en castellano? Ni puta idea. Pero no es otra cosa que una caja de cartón forrada de papel de calco, que construí siguiendo este tutorial tan cojonudo de Strobist.
No es tan elegante como la original, pero cumple su cometido a las mil maravillas. Tiempo invertido, una hora. Coste: 6 euros. Animo a todos los fotógrafos amateur a que se hagan una.
Se pueden sacar fotos de catálogo como esta.
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A DIY lightbox made following this outstanding Strobist tutorial. Easy, useful, cheap. Nothing but a carboard box with some sheets of tracing paper attached.
I encourage every amateur photographer out there to build one. It costed me an hour and less than $10. It's not as good-looking as the one featured in the tutorial, but it does the job wonderfully and allows me to take some pretty decent product shots with minimal hassle.
Lightbox Sign for a bakery made of Aluminum and Acrylic
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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.
Nikon D300S
Sigma 105mm. macro EX
F14 2sec.
200 ISO
Treppiede Manfrotto 055XPROB
Testa Manfrotto 488RCO
Micnova Remote Switch
Lightbox
On explore September 26, 2007
Looking at Yosemite Valley, CA.
This was taken right before dusk. This camera was
set up by another photographer waiting for the sun to set.
I increased the brightness a little, no cropping.
View large size for more detail.
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.
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.
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
Un altra prova de llum amb la lightbox :)
Otra prueba de luz con la lightbox :)
Another light test with the lightbox :)
Explored!!...sí, però ¿¿perquè?? No entenc a la burra :-D
The setup shot. I took lots of test shots before using the actual ice cream.
Lightbox consists of an old UHAUL box (used to hold my México stuff, as you can see), gift wrap tissue paper and pink wrapping paper for the backdrop. The lights are two walmart lamps that were $7 each. Total cost? $18.
This was also done in the LightBox. The difference was that I closed it all up and just used a small night light inside. I brightened it up up a bit with the levels adjustment in Photoshop.
The information to build your own LightBox is Here
This simple lightbox setup consists of a translucent box, a utility lamp with a daylight fluorescent bulb, and white posterboard for a background. I also purchased some cheap white crepe fabric ffor $2 in case I needed to diffuse the light a bit more. With fabric, box, and lamp, bulb, and two large sheets of posterboard, I spent less than $25. I suspect it can be done even cheaper if you already have a lamp.
Here is the lightbox that I assembled. It cost very little... with excellent results. Supply List: 2 20x30x1/2" Foam Board ($1.99/each). 3 20x30x3/8" Foam Board ($0.99/each). 4 Sheets of Tracing Paper ($0.80). 1 Roll of 18" wide easel paper ($3.99). 2 500w Halogen lights ($9.29/each). Light box was put together with none other than white Duct Tape. Hope you like. I got the whole idea from www.photography-on-the.net.
We produced these lightbox wall graphics for UGG. This is an impressive way to highlight your brand and/or products in your store.
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Hi Everyone! Sorry that I've neglected my Flickr for the past couple of weeks. I started school and it has been keeping me busy for pretty much every second of the day; organic chemistry and anatomy and pathophysiology aren't the least time consuming things lol! I will try to reply to everyone's comments from the past few weeks.
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