Thread: Light Box that most people have

What H4P is talking about is the biggest problem I've had with photographing razors.
Until now I thought that standing them on end was for aesthetics or to not have problems keeping a razor open if the tang pin is loose. It never occurred to me that the reflections were easier to get right.

Another solution (though it does involve moving more stuff around) is to use a white sheet over your lightbox so everything around the razor is white. The only reflection you have to worry about in that case is from the camera lens.

I have not yet found a way to take a picture of a razor totally straight on and have the blade covered in clean white light. I think the only way to do it would be to somehow modify the laws of physics.

On the attached image of a razor that I sold recently you'll notice that the blade has absolutely no reflections. The lighting is flat and even.
The blade looks ugly, because it is ugly. But, in terms of a razor for sale, it was obvious to the buyer exactly what they were getting. There are no imperfections that are "hidden" by dark reflections.
(I am going to get a dark gray velvet background for my lightbox in the near future... I don't like the thread pattern of the sheet that I have there showing up. I could go with shallower depth of field to blur it out, but in a space that small shallow DOF makes it hard to get all of the razor details in focus.)

I think im going to abandon the microwave. To hard to adjust the lights and so forth. Box building time(some time)

I am about to pick this up from amazon:
Table Top Photo Studio Light Tent Kit

Simpleman: Try to figure out where that black reflection on the blade is coming from, and then hold up a white sheet of paper in that spot when you take the picture. Or... try rotating the blade a bit one way or the other.

its too hard too hard cant do it screammmmm stupid razors. Im starting to get frustraded. Time to go hone something and relax.

Thant tent is a neat idea.