After I made the lightbox (and photographed everything possible from PBR cans to hollow books to candles inside) I wanted to experiment with a way to bring more light to my hollow book safe pictures. I shoot these on my vintage record player stand, which has moved into the bedroom where there's ample light. But even with noon day natural light, my pictures were still coming out a bit gray.
So I built a DIY light umbrella! I took a dollar store umbrella and sprayed the underside with white spray paint, then clipped the umbrella and a lamp onto Tom's mic stand. The lamp, pointing into the white reflective underside of the umbrella, radiates light evenly back across the record player stand - making my editing job much easier.
18 comments:
great idea! nice work!
Brilliant!
Truly a brilliant idea!! I may have to pop out to the dollar store today...
thank you for sharing this!
Very nice! My husband has been throwing around ideas for making something for me to get better pics of my jewelry. I'm forwarding this to him right now!
cool idea...i want to make one
...and I love how the cat is sat next to the bed, ears swivelled, listening to what you are up to while pretending not to be interested! lol!
Great idea.
so very practical. Thank you, Marilyn
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Genius and accessible. Thanks for sharing!
Smart! I also built my own light box with success, but was needing an option to light bigger spaces.
Any problems with the paint getting too hot with the light?
Thanks so much for the tip!
Fresh! I am taking my first photo class this week, to learn how to shoot great pictures of my crafts. Thanks for the groovy idea!
Saw this on Craft, and just had to try it! Brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing! Here's mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superflash/4330488635/
Awesome idea! My husband and i are both amateur photographers; we just bought a bunch of clip lights this weekend for extra photo lighting, so building one of these sounds like it would be super-helpful.
thanks for the comments everyone!
I haven't had any problems with the paint getting too hot, but I'm not using for extended periods of time - it will be on for no longer than an hour an a time.
Cool idea i have a problem with lighting all the time. Thanks tons!
Really cool DIY idea and excecution
:)
What a fantastic idea - and it's so much easier than creating a light box. Thank you so much for sharing.a
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