Another DIY light box, with build and test pics

rooftopsuicideclub wrote in post #5069066
quick and dirty photoshop. just for fun. got rid of that pesky fingerprint on the edge too, haha.

Wow... very cool. Lots for me to learn in PS!

wow, nice!!!

Okay so last time I posted something totally different then what everyone else is doing.
This time I figured I would do more of what you all are doing, Product Photography type photos.
So here are my first attempts at product photography.

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rounder_09 wrote in post #5069744
Wow... very cool. Lots for me to learn in PS!

thanks! you'd be amazed at what you can learn from PS tutorials. i work in photoshop all day for work, so i pick up whatever tricks i can where i can. all i did for that one was a quick white balance, USM tweak, brought up the contrast a little (although that hurt the pic a little, IMO). sectioned off the stones, layer via copy, hue/saturation for the stones, and made the reflection (tons of tutorials for that out there).

any reason you grayscaled this pic?
i wanted to see what it looked like in its true form.

jdaly wrote in post #5068303
Continuing on the "money" theme.

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Looks like you're mixing light sources on this one, notice the blue tint in the shadows.

rooftopsuicideclub wrote in post #5070347
thanks! you'd be amazed at what you can learn from PS tutorials. i work in photoshop all day for work, so i pick up whatever tricks i can where i can. all i did for that one was a quick white balance, USM tweak, brought up the contrast a little (although that hurt the pic a little, IMO). sectioned off the stones, layer via copy, hue/saturation for the stones, and made the reflection (tons of tutorials for that out there).

any reason you grayscaled this pic?
i wanted to see what it looked like in its true form.

Did the grey scale as they are white gold rings... but looked a bit tarnished (and off colour) in the lighting. the diamonds didn't have that nice blue out of the camera... so I decided to kill all the colour

Here is my first attempt at a light box.

DDCSD wrote in post #5070363
Looks like you're mixing light sources on this one, notice the blue tint in the shadows.

Yeah, I've noticed that in some of my other shots as well. What causes that blue light? I've got two 250/500w work lamps on each side plus an on-camera flash.

jdaly wrote in post #5072433
Yeah, I've noticed that in some of my other shots as well. What causes that blue light? I've got two 250/500w work lamps on each side plus an on-camera flash.

Just use the worklights. The flash and the diffused work lights have different color temperatures, which makes it impossible to get a correct white balance, giving you the blue tint.

DDCSD wrote in post #5072726
Just use the worklights. The flash and the diffused work lights have different color temperatures, which makes it impossible to get a correct white balance, giving you the blue tint.

Wait, you don't use the flash? I figured you had to since the OP had his flash on his camera.

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I believe they discussed this somewhere in the thread when someone else was having the problems. In the first post, the OP had a fairly fast shutter speed and the ambient wasn't effecting the shots as much as the flash was. With your slower shutter speeds, more ambient light is creeping in and overpowering the flash a bit. You may want to shut off the other lights in the room also.

Just playing around

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OK I have one question. I have set up my light box and put glass on background, but there is visible edge of glass. How to eliminate that thing.

chuspy wrote in post #5073512
OK I have one question. I have set up my light box and put glass on background, but there is visible edge of glass. How to eliminate that thing.

You need to clone it out in PS.