Thread: I made a light box.

Nice!

It's pretty easy, and does a lot to the pics

I got some Halogen lamps with clamps from Clas Ohlson for mine, gets even better with the same lightning all around.

If you can set manual white balance on hour camera I'd look into that.

The first 6 pictures have the white balance set automatically, the "Orange" picture has the white balance set to the highest setting and the last two have the white balance set to 2500 I think.
I'm not very experienced when it comes to photography so this is all very new to me, luckily, my father is very into cameras and photography(I used his cameras to take the pictures) so I get a lot of tips on what settings and optics to use from him.

The lamps are just what I had lying around, I'll look into halogen lamps.

Cools, i was thinking about looking up light-box ideas/design on the way home today.

Boom,

there it is!

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Camera/camera apps: you might play with the "f-stop" settings too. Lower numbers, longer "exposure", better detail but camera must be steady.

And now that most bulbs are rated in Kelvin temps for colors, you can play with that as well. 2700k is the "warm" light end and 6500 is "daylight" bluer color. 5000k strikes a good balance, and is becoming more available. I often "mix" the 2700 and 6500 for work area illumination.

You might try the "y" sockets such that you can double up on bulbs (low-wattage stuff like CFL and LED) and work on colors/intensity. I do this with clamp-on utility lights (reflector removed).

I forgot to mention, these things made the whole project a lot easier, I just wish I had found out that I had three more of them before I was almost done.

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

Originally Posted by WadePatton

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

One can easily solve great problems before the morning ingestion of a legal drug brings them back to reality.

gotta seize the lucid moments!

Originally Posted by WadePatton

I figger sticking paper to the sides of an unused aquarium would be a quick easy. Or (careful folks he's had zero coffee) I just conceived of this: cutting windows into a box, then papering up the box-internally or externally, add lights.

oh, lookie that USPS box is white even..

okay i'll grind some beans

Yeah that's what mine is. I used cut up white t-shirts for the "paper". Seems to work pretty good. I think I got the idea from a youtube video. +1 on the daylight color bulbs.

Originally Posted by Zephyr

I got some Halogen lamps with clamps from Clas Ohlson for mine, gets even better with the same lightning all around.

Sure, but then you have to wait for a thunderstorm and fly a few kites with keys hanging on a string and it's all just a big hassle.

I wasn't there when George Washington flew that kite but I bet it was something neat to see!!!