12Jul/060
Poor mans light box
I came across a article at Strobist detailing a very cheap light box setup and decided to build one.
It is basically a cardboard box, some tracing paper and a sheet of paper like you'd use to make a school poster on. I didn't have anything, not even the tape to stick the bits together or something to cut with, I also had to buy 30 sheets of tracing paper since that was the smallest they sold and it all came to about 14 pounds. I had a box here from when I moved to the UK almost 5 years ago so figured its about time I do something with it.
It took about 10 minutes to slap everything together, Pixel found it all very amusing so all round a lot of fun.
Using it is a snap, I've not tried it using a desk lamp or something but really cannot imagine why it won't work, with my SB-800 fully wireless remote flash I works a charm as you can see from the first shot above. The final results can be seen on flickr here with one of the shots below.
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Planned books:
- The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
- Relentless by Dean Koontz
- Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois
- The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan
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Ariel: A Book of the Change by Steven R. Boyett
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- Hacking Vim: A Cookbook to Get the Most Out of the Latest Vim Editor by Kim Schulz
- Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
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