Light tents aren't easy!

[bwhinnen]

Well thanks to Keith aka Firsty (see this thread

I went and bought the stuff to build a light tent. Ended up making it 15" x 15" with 4 little lights from Big W (10.98 each) 2 x 23W 6500K lights and 2 x 20W 6500K lights (they only had two of each all the others were 2700K!) (7.88 each) and the laundry hamper for 19.97 And 1 sheet of white pastebaord from spotlight for 2.30

This is the result



And a hell of a lot of stuffing around to get



I am still not 100% happy with it, so hard to get the background nice and crisp white and not blow the phone completely!

Any hints?

Thanks,

[Kyle]

Looks great so far!

I found an unlimited resource for light boxen: http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum ... =light+box

[MATT]

Nice results with your Ghetto light box..

Goodwork

MATT

[fishafotos]

It looks pretty good so far, only tip I could give you if you are blowing the phone out would be to put more light behind the backing so it is exposed more than the phone.

[Laurie]

thanks for the right up. i am really wanting to make my own lightbox, and might give it be go soon.
what lens is best for these lightboxes?

[bwhinnen]

I used the kit lens (18-70), not the sharpest but at f14 it does ok

[bwhinnen]

I am wondering if the material I've used for the diffuser is a little to thick or not opaque enough. It is the white garbage bags from Glad, nice and lemon scented...

Any thoughts? As I am using a total of four lights, two from the sides, one at the front top and one at the back top to try and light up the pasteboard.

Thanks all

[Laurie]

on my uncalibrated LCD @ work the white balance looks a tad off. the white paper looks green at the bottom of the image.

it might just be my monitor. it might also be the lemons in the paper you used

[bwhinnen]

Might have caught a bit of the fluoro on the front edge, the kitchen light was on (to the left of the image). The lights are all 6500K and white balance was set to 6500K in PP (shot in RAW).

I'll have another play with it later on. I'll actually set up a table in the garage so I can have all other light sources turned off

[billybass]

Hi, I am new to this forum.
May I suggest that instead of using opaque cardboard that something translucent can be used instead and the light can also come from below. Ta billybass

[gstark]

Brett,

I am wondering if the material I've used for the diffuser is a little to thick or not opaque enough. It is the white garbage bags from Glad, nice and lemon scented...

I would probably see if I can find some white fabric somewhere. Thin, light ... but mozzie netting would too thin and light ...

[bwhinnen]

Thanks Gary, on thinking of it further I wonder if it (the glad bags) were too light. And was thinking of something like rip-nylon or similar (like parachute material) from Spotlight. I think a cotton sheet would be too heavy, even a low thread count one...

[gstark]

I think that something like parachute material might be ideal.

[B01NG]

i made myself one the other day too, using the same lamps and bulbs as you! hehe. i used a large printer box though, and i got some white polyester from lincraft as the difuser, works quite well.

[bwhinnen]

Material has been changed to rip-stop nylon. And the tests re-tried, although my wife has her mobile phone so I had to choose another subject


D200 - 18-70DX - 50mm, 1/1.3sec, f18, EV +1.3, ISO100, WB adjusted to 6500K in PP.

And


D200 - 18-70DX - 46mm, 1/2sec, f18, EV +1.3, ISO100, WB adjusted to 6500K in PP.

I think it is better, but will be hard to say until I can get the phone back in there.

Brett

[sirhc55]

Is that your ”other” hobby Brett

[bwhinnen]

Is that your ”other” hobby Brett

Keeping my 21month old son annoyed by stealing all his toys? Yep! It is funny, he gets given all these toys from family and his favourite things are a screw driver (one of those ratchet ones with removable tips (yes the tips have been removed) and the swiffer