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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
With just the equipment you have in the store, plus a white or blue bed sheet, you can make a light box in about 30 minutes. The biggest concern is the temperature (color) of the light bulbs you use, but most digital cameras today have a wide array of 'white balance' settings to handle this.
Two or three goose-neck clamp-on desk lamps, some PVC pipes and joints to make a cube, line the inside with the sheet, clamp the lamps to the outside, and you're in business! You can do it even faster if you don't want a permenant set-up by cutting the sides out of a cardboard box instead of making a plastic frame.
Both of these work every bit as well as the store bought models. The biggest difference is the ease of setup and the adjustability of lighting placement.
Stitchawl |
I know it's easy to make and my father's been planning on making one for years but he never does (and if I make one it will not be good enough, of course). I also assume the ready-made studios are easy to set up and take down and I know that if my father makes something it will be anything but easy to use
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I'm not too worried about colour temperature for FB pictures, which are just to give an overview of what we have and to post new products. If my father wants to have good colour we can make our own lighting system since we've got the daylight lamps in stock.
I know that the Mediamarkt has a mini studio but I didn't like that lighting set-up so I'll ask the photography shop across the canal if they have or can get something.