Light Box (How-To)

[owen.richards]

I had a few people asking me what a lightbox was and how i made one, Well basically it is a little area that you can control the light for photography. All you will need is a dark room, like basically your bedroom with the lights off at night, A flourescent tube light just like 10 inches so you can move it around easily, a Chair, a Camera, a unfaded dark shirt, or a sheet of fabric, a couple tiles or different props,

First just put a chair in the middle of the room


Next Put the fabric or dark shirt over the back of the chair and a bit on the seat like shown


Now set up your props


Add a hand held tube flourescent light and you got a light box


NOW HERES HOW TO USE IT

the chair just gives it shape, the dark fabric is to absorb light and reduce glare, the tiles or props are to have a background of your choice, or something to put the snake or whatever on to photograph,

Basically move the light around the subject until you have the ammount of light or shaddow you want, remeber you have to have the lights in the room off so it is pretty much pitch black before you turn the light on, the only light in the room will be the tube light, Experament with different fabrics and different colors, and different tiles or props and go nuts,

heres a pic of the first time i used mine


the light from the tube will make it so the camera flash doesnt go off

enjoy, and make sure to post your pics

[mpgt]

Wow that's cool! Thanks Owen.

[xbigredtankx]

great post, i will def give that a go when i get back into picture mode...

[Herpguy55]

Thanks! looks great, and fairly easy to do and end result looks good!

[owen.richards]

i imagine youll need something bigger or a lot more patience for bigger snakes, especially one that wants to move around, this guy was a lil defensive so it made the picture taking so much easier

[cameron15]

What kind of camera are you using?

[owen.richards]

its a 99 dollar best buy camera, its an HP photosmart m420