{"id":114,"date":"2008-02-23T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arransalerno.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-02-21T07:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:03:13","slug":"ghetto-style-light-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/ghetto-style-light-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghetto style light box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I’ve been meaning to make one for a while now, and this afternoon I finally did it.<\/p>\n

All you need is:
\n– Cardboard box,
\n– White paper, tracing paper or white plastic,
\n– Tape,
\n– Lights (desk lamps or anything directional).<\/p>\n

Method:
\nSimply cut out the sides of your cardboard box. Obviously don’t cut everything, you need to keep the cardboard box as a frame so it’s keeps its structural integrity. Next you just tape the paper to the sides of the remaining cardboard box “frame” making sure to leave one side completely open. By now you should have a box frame with paper attached to all but one side. If so, you’re finished!<\/p>\n

Well almost. All that’s left is setting up your light sources to point through the paper sides of the box shining in to the object you’ll place inside. The idea is that the paper diffuses the multiple light sources entering the light box creating a soft even light with minimal shadows. It’s best to have the same type of lights on the outside if possible as it helps keep an even white-balance. As you can see my white balances are off as I ended up using 4 completely different light sources, which wasn’t ideal.<\/p>\n

I think I got an ok result for a first time test. I need to work on focusing and composition, as well as exposure and controlling the harshness of the lights a bit more.. So basically everything..
\nI’m looking forward to giving it another go though when I can spend more than 10 minutes setting it all up.
\nHere are a few of my results so far (yes, the white balance is all over the place).<\/p>\n

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Well I’ve been meaning to make one for a while now, and this afternoon I finally did it. All you need is: – Cardboard box, – White paper, tracing paper or white plastic, – Tape, – Lights (desk lamps or anything directional). Method: Simply cut out the sides of your cardboard box. Obviously don’t cut everything, you need to keep the cardboard box as a frame so it’s keeps its structural integrity. Next you just tape the paper to the sides of the remaining cardboard box “frame” making sure to leave one side completely open. By now you should have a box frame with paper attached to all but one side. If so, you’re finished! Well almost. All that’s left is setting up your light sources to point through the paper sides of the box shining in to the object you’ll place inside. The idea is that the paper diffuses the multiple light sources entering the light box creating a soft even light with minimal shadows. It’s best to have the same type of lights on the outside if possible as it helps keep an even white-balance. As you can see my white balances are off as I ended up using 4 completely different light sources, which wasn’t ideal. I think I got an ok result for a first time test. I need to work on focusing and composition, as well as exposure and controlling the harshness of the lights a bit more.. So basically everything.. I’m looking forward to giving it another go though when I can spend more than 10 minutes setting it all up. Here are a few of my results so far (yes, the white balance is all over the place). \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,18,25],"tags":[57,67,78,90,93,112,123],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camera","category-digital","category-photos","category-techrepairs","tag-diy","tag-ghetto","tag-light-box","tag-olympus","tag-om2n","tag-sp","tag-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}