Recommend a Light Box Kit

[nhamze]

Can anyone recommend a light box/kit. I am getting into macro photography and while I like the outdoor shots my indoor shots have horrible lighting issues so I was thinking of getting a light box but I am not sure which one is good there are so many different lights and boxes and I don't want to drop a bunch of money on something that is no good. Any help would be appreciated

Nick

 

[ChrisA]

Can anyone recommend a light box/kit. I am getting into macro photography and while I like the outdoor shots my indoor shots have horrible lighting issues so I was thinking of getting a light box but I am not sure which one is good there are so many different lights and boxes and I don't want to drop a bunch of money on something that is no good. Any help would be appreciated

Nick

Make one yourself. For very small subjects a 1 galon white plastic milk jug. Just cut out the bottom and one side. For bigger subjects make a tant of out white nylon ripstop. It's not rocket science. For studio shots like these the cheapest Vivitar strobes work well. Use then in manual mode

 

[compuwar]

Can anyone recommend a light box/kit. I am getting into macro photography and while I like the outdoor shots my indoor shots have horrible lighting issues so I was thinking of getting a light box but I am not sure which one is good there are so many different lights and boxes and I don't want to drop a bunch of money on something that is no good. Any help would be appreciated

Nick

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

 

[cookie1105]

hey, great link there compuwar.

 

[compuwar]

hey, great link there compuwar.

Thanks, I've got some jewelry to shoot this week and I'm not a jewelry/product photographer, so I've been hunting around for this stuff. It was the best of the 20 or so links I found outside the commercial light tent world, and actually looks better than some of those.

Paul

 

[Clix Pix]

Photek makes a fairly inexpensive light tent set. By the way, these things are called a light tent, not a light box. A lightbox is used to view slides and negatives.

 

[compuwar]

Photek makes a fairly inexpensive light tent set. By the way, these things are called a light tent, not a light box. A lightbox is used to view slides and negatives.

Slides? Negatives? Didn't the Egyptions use those to develop heiroglyphics?

(I still have two enlargers, a Jobo and 3 view cameras at home.)