So I built a lightbox, or rather a quick and dirty lightbox for taking photos of my figures. First efforts, the ork photos below, were a bit yellow’ish as they were taken a bit late in the day and there is a lot of artificial yellow electric light. Will try again later when there is a bit more natural light. Certainly it’s easier to use than my previous system. Could have chosen a better box, ie one with one part sides that didn’t require extra reinforcement because I chopped windows in the sides but there you go.
Anyway, as you can probably tell, it is a box on it’s side with three windows cut into it. One each on either side and one on the top which were then covered with baking paper. Obviously the idea is to allow diffused light into the box (via natural and artificial sources) and onto the subject. The result should be a well lit model without any shadows. As you can see it also provides a nice mechanism for holding in place the sheet of card as a curved backdrop to get that suspended/floating effect.
I don’t get it… I always thought the idea was to keep the subject well lit in light not hide it behind a cloth curtain?
Mind you.. looking at my photography you can see it’s a bit hit and miss. I shoot at low resolution for posting which doesn’t help either.
Whatever happened to the halogen lamp facing into a silver umbrella?
Well that’s just it a halogen light facing an umbrella reflects the light back at the subject rather than spotlighting it. The idea with a light box is to get light around the subject but diffused light rather than direct light which causes shadows, reflections etc which make for a poor photo.
So anyways.. does it work?
What would you change?
Is it portable?
Will you make a folding one for storage?
Does the greasproof paper really work?
What is with your fasination with grease proof paper.. ever sonce th ewet pallette it is grease proof this , grease proof that.. blah blah blah.. LOL
Yes your photographs look very good.
Well done.
Wht about your spray booth for your airbrush?
Yeah it definately works … for a given value of works. It does a reasonable job, better than my previous method.
less box, more paper probably and perhaps a slightly bigger box.
it’s a box, albeit a rather fragile one. boxes tend to be portable.
that’s a good thought, because whilst it’s quite portable it’s not small and it’s a little delicate being mostly paper. thinking about it I have a few ideas of how I could achieve a folding one however I don’t think I could find the motivation.
works fine, next time you’re down I’ll demonstrate
well it’s paper and it’s grease proof, or as we in the trade like to call it “baking paper”. aside from that it’s what I had. i think the example that I ripped off used tissue paper or some such, that’s even more fragile and well I don’t have any.
nah they don’t but they look better than my early attempts so thats a win for me.
well it’s in the same condition and sitting in the same place as we left it when you lived down here and we used your airbrush. it has more cobwebs now though, and there is shit piled up in front of it so you can’t get to it. I don’t have my airbrush yet, but I will, in time..in time