Saturday, February 20, 2010

DIY Light Box

Today I made a light box to photograph small products. I saw somewhere a similar thing. Can't figure out where though. And I am too lazy to google it now. May be later.

Okay so first I dig out a cardboard box. Taufiq vai ordered something large from Amazon and it fulfilled its life long purpose in my little project. Anyway, I did not measure the dimension of the box, but it is slightly larger than the standard letter size printer papers in all sides.

I held a paper against the side of the box and marked a rectangle slightly smaller than the paper. I did it on three sides of the box- two largest sides and one smaller side. The reason for this is- I can change the lighting by placing the strobe on either largest side or the smaller side. If, in near future, I get another strobe, it will placed on the other largest side. The fourth one is left as it was, which was a mistake I will discuss later in the post.

So here is the box marked using a green marker-


After marking the lines, I used a kitchen knife to cut along the lines. Here is how it looked like-


You can see the fourth uncut side at the bottom. I should have cleared out edges. The stray strips of paper was hampering when I glued the printer papers. So After gluing the papers, the box looks like this-


With my SB25 on the right-


Even at this point, I have not noticed my stupid mistake yet. The mistake was that, every side of the box was covered. So there was nowhere, I would place my camera to take a shot of the product. The fault was found just after I placed the box onto my wrist watch. So after I took out the paper off from one side, the box looks like this-


So now I have a window to shoot from. Yay. Here are the shots of a couple of products I could find on my messy table-

My watch-


A new box of Gillette Mach3 Razor cartridges-


No comments:

Post a Comment