Arran Salerno | Photography - Blog » light box http://www.arransalerno.com/blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:28:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ghetto style light box http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/ghetto-style-light-box/ http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/ghetto-style-light-box/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:43:00 +0000 Arran http://www.arransalerno.com/blog/?p=114 Well i’ve been meaning to make one for a while now, and this afternoon i finally did it.
All you need to do is cut out the sides of a cardboard box and cover it with white paper/tracing paper/white plastic etc… Only took about 10 minutes also which was good as my concentration span doesnt often last much longer than that.
The idea is that the light box provides a nice soft even light source to the object placed inside. Its best to have the same type of light on the outside to help with white-balance etc. As you can see my white balances are off as i ended up using 4 completely different light sources, which wasnt ideal.
I think i got an ok result for a first time. I need to work on focusing and composition, aswell as exposure and controlling the harshness of the lights a bit more.. So basically everything..
I’m looking forward to giving it another go.
Here are a few of my results so far (yeah, white balance is pretty badly out).

:D

Oh, and here is my dodgy setup complete with messy room

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