Need some opinions...

[Deckyon]

Came across this in a search for photo screens. Anyone think this is worth it, or would it be cheaper to make on my own?

http://www.ezcube.com/

Seems pretty neat, but also a bit expensive, especially the lights, considering I could get a couple tabletop lamps for $30 each.

Thanks,

[slejhamer]

I made one with a large cardboard box (top removed and large holes cut in two adjacent sides.) Painted the inside flat white. Covered the holes with frosted shower curtain material. Before shooting, I line the box with a piece of thin white or black posterboard, depending on the desired effect. Cost: somewhere between free and US$15, depending on what you have laying around.

I took THIS in the box, with a couple of lights outside.

The one for sale is collapsable and easily portable, though. Yours would always be a big box.

[Deckyon]

My wife is a great seamstress, and she has made laundry baskets that collapse like that, so I dont think it would be too hard to recreate that as well... I imagine that nylon would be a decent material to cover it with.

Real question was with the lamps. Would 2 or 3 desk lamps provide the same quality as something like they have?

Thanks,

[pukkita]

deckyon, the lamps doesn't have anything special, but the lightbulbs.

As long as the lamps you get can stand the heat, they'll suffice.

You could even use another kind of bulbs provided you don't mix them: hallogen (beware, they generate heat) or whatever.

Simply include a gray card on one of the shots and shoot RAW to later get the right color temp and you'll be done.

If yoo finally build the tent at home, make provisions for more holes to shoot from, something like this http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh2/con...#goto_itemInfo