My Basic Light Box - Tutorial

[go mike]

I had a light box made out of two hangers, 3 pieces of paper, some wax paper, and some tape, and it wasn't large enough, so I made a new one. I decided to take pictures to help others who might want one of these also.

Get a cardboard box of about the same size as you want your light box to be, tape the box together (fully closed) and cut open the side you want to be the front, and cut the top to be a flap, instead of completely on, or completely off.


Use some of your scrap to cut angled pieces of cardboard, so your top can be slanted.


Tape white paper on the inside, covering all of the cardboard.


Cut a hole in the top, and tape some wax paper (or other translucent paper) so the light is not directly shining on the object. I used two pieces of wax paper.


Here's my finished light box. I used a regular desk lamp with foil on the inside, and on the outside to help reflect as much light as possible into the box. On the outside also helps so the camera does not adjust to the light outside of the box, if you are back enough.




Thanks for looking, and I hope there'll be super good pictures on the forums soon!

 

[sulsaMatt]

Hey, thanks for taking the time to share. Got any knife pics w/ your new box?

 

[go mike]

There's the two knives I have completed. The paper edges in the background don't look the best, but I didn't have any paper big enough.

 

[Rody]

The way I made my lightbox:

picasaweb.google.com/rody.koops/lightbox

Cheers ROdy

 

[go mike]

Rody: I kinda took your idea with using cardboard with this box, and I kinda took Patrice's idea with the shape, and changed enough with it to allow me to use only one lamp (I only have one) to have it work, so I made this and decided if other people like it, they can make one too.

 

[Rody]

Rody: I kinda took your idea with using cardboard with this box, and I kinda took Patrice's idea with the shape, and changed enough with it to allow me to use only one lamp (I only have one) to have it work, so I made this and decided if other people like it, they can make one too.

Cool! It wasn't my idea, I also got it from somewhere else, but still nice to have been of help to someone. As for the background, I used a piece of paper from a big roll of drawing paper I got at Ikea. It isn't white, but that's ok by me.

Multiple lights do allow for more flexibility...

Cheers Rody

 

[deloid]