Poor mans light box

12 Jul 2006

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.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 6:51 PM

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