Wednesday, November 18, 2009

DIY Lightbox

I was disappointed with the picture I posted of the soaps I recently made and after some investigation (yay for the internet), I decided to make my own lightbox. There's a tutorial here. I had most of the supplies on hand except some daylight bulbs and I also bought a worklamp. My pictures were yellowish until I figured out to change a setting on the camera to "incandescent." Also, no fancy SLR camera needed. These were taken with my point and shoot:

lightbox_tractor

lightbox_train

These toys happened to be in reach. Can you tell I have a boy? I'm still playing around and need to practice and experiment but I was happy with how these turned out for a first try. Here is what the set up looks like in case you are interested:

lightbox_setup

1 comments:

atlanta movers said...

This looks like a great way to make an inexpensive lightbox for small items. I know this is an old post but I just found it as I was looking for a way to post product pictures online without having a background. Thanks for the tutorial & pics! -Josh