Nice work there. You really give an idea to build my own Light Box. Check this out DIY Macro Studio.

From your cars picture, I see that you don't have lighting at the front bcoz it more darker at the front compare to at the top side. I also have this problem because if I use built-in flash (no speedlight), the front side will be to bright. Any suggestion for this?

Actually, I did use flash for the car photos. Can check from the EXIF data. But for photos 1 to 4, I didn't use a flash. I don't have a speedlight either so I used my built-in flash. Set it to -4/3 EV and I thought it was just nice as it covered quite a lot of the shadows in front of the car. The flash also seemed to "bring out" the reflection on the glass better - brighter and clearer. Maybe your can try that too?

And thanks for the link! That's a very detailed guide in building the lightbox. Perfect for anyone who wants to try this out too

This hobby cost a lots of money. So by doing some DIY stuff can really safe a lot of our hard earn money . I just a newbie so by this way may help other newbies to learn something new.

yep, indeed a good DIY
love the final result
its almost like what i've seen in catalogue photos
thanks for sharing this

Is that your blog btw? Mind if I post the link on my blog? It will help anyone looking for a more detailed description of building the box And yea, good DIY stuff can really save alot of money.

Quoting the Strobist website, "Good photography equipment can be very expensive but good quality lighting is not".


Thank you! Go build one and have some fun too!

Its fun man! I followed your footsteps and built myself a lightbox yesterday night with some compress foam boards and corrugated white mounting board. Here are some of my shots. Thanks for the tip. Now I got myself a new toy to play with.


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my setup: 1 SB800 + lambency diffuser triggered by cheap china made radio trigger, placed on top of the lightbox



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shit...kena poisoned~
its going to be mine weekend new subject~LOL

Oh ya, where u guys buy those things?? Light..+ papers...
Got 1 question, how to operate the fluorescent tube?? electricity come from...=="
pardon me for noob

Thanks dude~

This post has been edited by alanljc: Jul 5 2008, 11:42 AM

yes...i also trying to find for those equipments...like those white light box you use and those florescent lamps...

Very nice! I've tried using the transparent plastic sheets before but I didn't like them cause I just can't get it to be entirely flat. Hence when I shoot from a low angle, the reflection is rather distorted. Like your photo no. 6, the word Hydra on the reflection is also a bit distorted.


Go poison more people Make this LYN's official DIY lightbox thread

The papers you can just get from any bookstore, stationary shop or supermarket. As for the lights, actually can just use any lights - fluorescent tube, giant torch light, external flash (like garyeow's setup) - are all possible I believe. My fluorescent tube I think my dad mod it liao. It has the 3 pins plug which I just plug into the socket for electricity.

Like I said not necessarily must be fluorescent lamps

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Added on July 6, 2008, 8:21 pmSome of you might consider this as "cheating" but I managed to PP the car shots to obtain a perfectly white background.



Edit: You can find out my PP procedure on my blog

This post has been edited by viNcee: Jul 7 2008, 02:17 AM

Yup, my blog. But not specialized for photography and not regularly update. Feel free to include link of my blog.