Another DIY light box, with build and test pics

Mark1 wrote in post #5756955
With stuff that does not move you don't need to be very bright. Right now I use 3 100 watt florescent bulbs in aluminum reflectors. Its not bright at all. But a slow shutter speed makes it alright!. You need a tripod, but you may have already known that.

I know... It's just a problem with my brain trying to over-engineer everything. I may trade those beasties for the $6 150W versions...

Here's yet another homebrew lightbox design with a decent tutorial on building it. I didn't have anything to do with this, just happened upon it.

http://www.pbase.com/w​lhuber/light_box_light​_tent

For additional construction details, look here:

http://filebox.vt.edu/​users/kmckevin/itma_ke​vin/projrep/lightbox.s​wf

Nothing fancy, but with a simple umbrella and an 800 Bee strobe I was able to obtain the following results. Please let me know what you think

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I like the directional lighting better than the sort we get from a light box. It also leaves room around the subject so you can use white/black cards to control the reflections:
Look at the knife & Browning threads here:
FAQ - Studio Lighting

these are great....keep getting better. I have to get to my light box and experiment.

Interesting and simple setup Khaled! Very nice results too!


David

I like the non reflective stuff. But the can has horrible reflections. This is the whole point of a light tent... reflections. Making the light even is only a side benefit.

So I attempted to make a lightbox with the supplies I had in hand but I failed.

I'm using a 10.2MP Samsung L200. The lights are 250 watts halogen worklights. I have the tissue paper on each side but I don't have the trunslucent paper on the top.

What am I doing wrong? All help is appreciated

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Just finished my Light Box

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hisairness32 wrote in post #5766568
So I attempted to make a lightbox with the supplies I had in hand but I failed.

I'm using a 10.2MP Samsung L200. The lights are 250 watts halogen worklights. I have the tissue paper on each side but I don't have the trunslucent paper on the top.

What am I doing wrong? All help is appreciated

Try with a bigger box. I had a similar result with my first attempt. Also, You will probably need to adjust your white balance to whiten up the background because the work lights throw a very warm light.

Here's a few from light box #2... I kept with the 500W work lights (just added a bit of distance) and moved to some thick tranclucent craft paper. Could have probably done with a bit of soft lighting fron the front as well...

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That Potato Head is too funny!!!! You need to resize it so it can be a desktop!!

The glares off it and the car tells that you are not diffusing the light any. Can you show your set up so we can help?

thanks to Pepper for starting this thread and to everyone who help make this thread very informative

heres my share