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Subject: Just playing with the light box I built...
These worked out really well the lighting is great.
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Just love the gargoyles and dragons! Looks like it's working out well for you!
I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com
This is so cool, and would save so much time setting up the macros I want to shoot. Yea! thanks I'm convinced I need to build one of these. One question about the shallow depth of field, did you have to shoot wide open because of lack of light, camera/lens limitations, or aesthetic choice? I'm asking to decide what kind of lights to buy. BTW what was your lighting source?
A portrait studio recently was finally closed after several decades. I noticed that the "flooring" and up the wall was a soft to the feet sheet of stuff. This turned out to be linoleum, a kind with a white side on the bottom. Spread like a carpet and with the white up, it worked quite well. Of course, the standard "grand masters" etc., drops were there too. I wonder how this would work for a small set like you made? Anyway, love the porpoises...that one really works well. Humm...now to build a light box... thanks. Tom.
ryno, I shot with a 50mm 2.8 Macro lens and yes because of the lighting it was wide open. The light was two bare 60watt bulbs set at the same hight and for the Dolphins a third 60watt behind me and the camera. cyn, I actually ironed it before I shot. The wrikles that are showingare because I didn't smooth it out when I moved the dragon. Gotta watch those details dangit. Also the one side was open to the camera. On the original shots were too flat so I lit a lamp behind me. If I were to re-shoot, I would completely close off the object then open a small whole for just the camera. If you look closely you can see the box and where it ends as well as the bare bulb above and behind me. Magick Michael
Attached Link: http://www.adorama.com/JU7492.html?sid=10698229448952
You can buy them. I am seeing light tables and Cube lights for $250 - $450 at Adorama. This is kind of a combination of both. You can get the high end stuff too its only about $5000. Check the link. PS I built this for $20 not including the cloth backdrops. Three cloth backdrops cost another $70 but I got the best cloth I could find in white, black and gold colors.
Cool stuff Michael. Would like to add that the stuff I've read on product photography, you almost never want to have your environment reflecting in/on the product unless it's part of the shoot. Most used some type of diffusion material over the whole thing (like a dome) or a flexible piece of white material that could be used as a reflector. Sort of make a half-moon type shape so that it blocks out the room without blocking out the light. That make sense?
What Donald describes is called a tent..... it not only diffuses the light but also blocks all those extraneous reflections..... which are especially noticable on the dolphins.
Message edited on: 03/19/2005 07:56
I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com
Michelle/Donald, They make special "tents" for highly refelctive objects that is usually rounded as to creat total diffused light on the obect. I have seen them in ads and articles but haven't broken down and bought one yet. And yeah its boring work but if it pays enough for a new lens or something, I am willing to get paid to be bored. :)
Too bad this didn't come up 2 months ago. We just tossed a dozen very large, clear plexiglass domes (half-globes) that we used on our old security system. They were probably big enough to cover a 13" TV. A thin frosting of paint (or plexi etching) to give it a diffuse white and they would have been perfect for this kind of stuff. Ah well.
At this point I'd just like to get paid. Agree with you boring or not it's money! Being unemployed for the last 3 years, any big photo purchases I make have to be justified and run by Mr. Money Pockets before I can buy them. :~/
I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com
Pascale, too much detail!!! Dirty girl... Michael, cheers - this may have come about at the right time. A colleague's husband has asked me to set up a website for his fasteners business.... god knows why, he obviously hasn't seen my past attempts.... anyways, creating a small version of this for the shots might not be such a bad idea... Tom, interesting.... firm yet flexible.. wide but long.... no, not me ;-) Lino!!! Cool idea..... (",)
I suggested that, but he wants one where he can at least have some say over the 'style' of the content and not being generic like so many of the step 1-2-3 ones.... They don't offer the flexibility with the graphics that he wants, from the sound of things. I suppose part of me wants to show off too ;-) Just watch him start wanting flipping shopping baskets or summik.... THEN I'll have to start swotting up.... (",)
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Attached Link: http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box
The link is to the plans. I upgraded a bit and used cloth instead of art paper and I bumped the PVC up to 3/4" for stability. These are just a few friends we have around the house. I think I am ready for some paid product shoots now! Magick Michael